Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Peter Ustinov

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Mary MacCracken

10.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

11.

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

12.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

13.

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

Daniel Raeburn

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

17.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

18.

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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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

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

Robert Byrne

25.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

26.

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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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

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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 little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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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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 curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

36.

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

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Dick Cavett

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

Proverb

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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