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

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

John Gray

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Phyllis Diller

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Robert Byrne

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Plomp, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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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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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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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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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 wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Ovid

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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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Landers, Ann

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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