Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Crane, Monta

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

Dorothy Parker

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Lawana Blackwell

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

King Edward VIII

10.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

11.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

12.

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

Capp, Al

13.

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

Lewin, Roger

14.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

16.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

19.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

24.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Edwards, Harry

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

30.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

31.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

32.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

33.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

35.

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

36.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

37.

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

38.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

39.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

40.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

43.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

45.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

46.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Wilmot, John

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Proverb