Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Children

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

Crane, Monta

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

Tauscher, Stacia

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Groucho Marx

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

10.

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

Montessori, Maria

11.

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

12.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

13.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

14.

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

Ball, Lucille

15.

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

Norman Douglas

16.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

19.

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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

21.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Hulbert, Harold

24.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

25.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

27.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

28.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

29.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

30.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

35.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

36.

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

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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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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

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

41.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

43.

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

William Shakespeare

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

46.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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