Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Children

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

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

Dogen

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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

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

Robert Byrne

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

Edwards, Harry

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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 apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Shakespeare, William

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb, English

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

Dick Cavett

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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 know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Ovid

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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

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.