Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- John Gray

Best Quotes about Children

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Angelou, Maya

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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It takes three to make a child.

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

11.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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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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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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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Mary MacCracken

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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 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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred