Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lewin, Roger

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Plomp, John

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

Chase, Alexander

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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

Ball, Lucille

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Ovid

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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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

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

34.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

35.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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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

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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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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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

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob