Motivational Quotes

Children

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

- John J. Plomp

Best Quotes about Children

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

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

10.

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

Robert Orben

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dogen

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Hunt, Leigh

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

26.

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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

29.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.