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 always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Robert Byrne

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Dick Cavett

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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 our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Epictetus

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett