Motivational Quotes

Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Children

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Robert Byrne

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

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

Groucho Marx

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Dick Cavett

16.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

17.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

18.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

19.

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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

21.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

25.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

26.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Norman Douglas

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Robert Orben

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

41.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

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

Daniel Raeburn

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Children are the keys of paradise.