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

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

Daniel Raeburn

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Hulbert, Harold

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

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

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

Robert Orben

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Moses, Robert

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Robert Byrne

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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 test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Morley, Christopher

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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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