Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Phyllis Diller

Best Quotes about Children

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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

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

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

Moses, Robert

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

John J. Plomp

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Epictetus

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

Norman Douglas

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Robert Orben

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Capp, Al

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

Who, Dr.

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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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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.