Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lair, Dr. Jess

Best Quotes about Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Kraus, Karl

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

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

Rabbinical Saying

11.

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

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

15.

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

Ball, Lucille

16.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

17.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

19.

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

20.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

21.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

26.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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 given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

29.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

30.

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

Picasso, Pablo

31.

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.

32.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

33.

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

Groucho Marx

34.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

40.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

42.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

43.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

44.

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

John Gray

45.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Lewin, Roger

48.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

50.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward