Motivational Quotes

Children

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

- Edwards, Harry

Best Quotes about Children

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Dyer, Wayne

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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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.

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lewin, Roger

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Robert Byrne

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas