Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

King Edward VIII

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

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

Epictetus

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

10.

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

11.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

12.

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

13.

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

Baldwin, James

14.

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 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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

18.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Nash, Ogden

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

21.

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.

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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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

24.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

25.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

28.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

29.

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

30.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

33.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

34.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

35.

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

Abbott, Lyman

36.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

37.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

38.

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

Phyllis Diller

39.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

41.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

45.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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