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

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

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

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

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Proverb, English

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

Edwards, Harry

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Angelou, Maya

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Plomp, John

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

Eliot, George

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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

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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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.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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