Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

King Edward VIII

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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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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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Morley, Christopher