Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Norman Douglas

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Bruce Barton

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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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

11.

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

12.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Chase, Alexander

18.

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Gray, Thomas

25.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

28.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

29.

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

30.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

39.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

41.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

44.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird