Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Mary MacCracken

Best Quotes about Children

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Epictetus

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.

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

Eliot, George

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Groucho Marx

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

10.

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

Capp, Al

11.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

13.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Ovid

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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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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

18.

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

19.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

20.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

21.

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

Robert Orben

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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

25.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

26.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

30.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

31.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lewin, Roger

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

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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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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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 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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Mead, Margaret