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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Robert Orben

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Pope, Alexander

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Bruce Barton

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

Norman Douglas

28.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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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

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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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