Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Children

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

18.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

24.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

32.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

33.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

34.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

39.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

40.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.