Motivational Quotes

Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Bruce Barton

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

Gray, Thomas

10.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

11.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

12.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

14.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

15.

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

Wiesel, Elie

16.

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

17.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

18.

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

Chase, Alexander

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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.

25.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

26.

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

Dorothy Parker

27.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

28.

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

29.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Capp, Al

31.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

32.

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

33.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

34.

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

Wilmot, John

35.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

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

King Edward VIII

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

42.

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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Ovid

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

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

Mary MacCracken

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

48.

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

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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

50.

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