Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Children

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Baldwin, James

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch