Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Children

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilde, Oscar

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

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

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Abbott, Lyman

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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 enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Robert Orben

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Robert Byrne

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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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 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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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill