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

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

Freud, Sigmund

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

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

Proverb

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Epictetus

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Ovid

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Wilmot, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

38.

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

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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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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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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