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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

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

Epictetus

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Dick Cavett

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.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

King Edward VIII

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Wilde, Oscar

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Ovid

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark