Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

10.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

11.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

Ball, Lucille

13.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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.

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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

26.

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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

28.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

29.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

30.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Dick Cavett

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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 of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

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

Capp, Al

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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

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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

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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