Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Norman Douglas

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

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Wilmot, John

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Angelou, Maya

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

11.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

20.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle