Motivational Quotes

Children

Children need models rather than critics.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Dogen

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

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Peter Ustinov

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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 takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

King Edward VIII

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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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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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