Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Moses, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Who, Dr.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Dick Cavett

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

10.

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

11.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

12.

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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

16.

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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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

18.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

21.

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

Edwards, Harry

22.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

23.

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

Ziglar, Zig

24.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

25.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Groucho Marx

29.

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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

31.

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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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

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

35.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

37.

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

Robert Orben

38.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

42.

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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

45.

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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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