Motivational Quotes

Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Children

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Dick Cavett

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

10.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

11.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Edwards, Harry

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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 are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Angelou, Maya

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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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 suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Bruce Barton

30.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Capp, Al

34.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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

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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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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Moses, Robert