Motivational Quotes

Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

Dorothy Parker

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

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

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

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

10.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

11.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

12.

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

Ball, Lucille

13.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

14.

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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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

17.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

21.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

22.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

23.

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

Peter Ustinov

24.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

25.

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

Kraus, Karl

26.

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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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

28.

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

Plomp, John

29.

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

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

33.

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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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

35.

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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

37.

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

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

40.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

42.

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

Who, Dr.

43.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Groucho Marx

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

47.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

48.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

49.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Lewin, Roger