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

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

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

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

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

10.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

11.

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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

13.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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

16.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

17.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Chase, Alexander

21.

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

Edwards, Harry

22.

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

Ziglar, Zig

23.

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

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

28.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

31.

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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Ovid

34.

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

35.

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

Morley, Christopher

36.

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

Groucho Marx

37.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

38.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

43.

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

Robert Orben

44.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

45.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Proverb, English