Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Nash, Ogden

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Epictetus

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

18.

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's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

21.

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

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

24.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Baldwin, James

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Robert Orben

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

31.

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

Norman Douglas

32.

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

Proverb

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

44.

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

Hunt, Leigh

45.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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