Motivational Quotes

Children

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

John J. Plomp

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Groucho Marx

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Robert Orben

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

Mary MacCracken

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Proverb, English

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Picasso, Pablo

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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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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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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Mead, Margaret

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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