Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lewin, Roger

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

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

11.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

12.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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 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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

King Edward VIII

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Dick Cavett

20.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

21.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

22.

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

23.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

27.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

29.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

30.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

31.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

32.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

33.

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Ovid

39.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Mary MacCracken

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

44.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Shakespeare, William

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, 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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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