Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Moustakas, Clark

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Eliot, George

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Rabbinical Saying

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Dogen

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

11.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

14.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

19.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

25.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Curie, Madame Marie

28.

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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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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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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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

32.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Norman Douglas

34.

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

35.

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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

37.

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

Plomp, John

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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hulbert, Harold

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

44.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Mary MacCracken

47.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Shakespeare, William