Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

King Edward VIII

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Sam Levenson

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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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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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Fran Lebowitz

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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