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

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

John Gray

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Baldwin, James

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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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

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

Dogen

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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

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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

34.

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

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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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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

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

Proverb

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

John J. Plomp

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