Motivational Quotes

Children

What is done to children, they will do to society.

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Children

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

Wilmot, John

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Groucho Marx

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Phyllis Diller

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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.

Dorothy Parker

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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

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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Who, Dr.

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton