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

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Ball, Lucille

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Morley, Christopher

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Norman Douglas

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques