Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lewin, Roger

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

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

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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

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

Phyllis Diller

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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 the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

John J. Plomp

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Crane, Monta

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

John Gray

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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