Motivational Quotes

Children

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Waitley, Denis

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Epictetus

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

Picasso, Pablo

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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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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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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

King Edward VIII

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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