Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Epictetus

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Lewin, Roger

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.

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

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

10.

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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Baldwin, James

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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

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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

24.

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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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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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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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