Motivational Quotes

Children

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Children

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Moses, Robert

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

Edwards, Harry

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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 living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Robert Byrne

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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

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Epictetus

40.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Groucho Marx