Motivational Quotes

Children

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Children

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Phyllis Diller

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Who, Dr.

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

Epictetus

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Lawana Blackwell

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Groucho Marx

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Groucho Marx

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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 in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Bible

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Robert Orben

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher