Motivational Quotes

Children

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Chase, Alexander

10.

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

11.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

12.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

13.

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

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

15.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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

17.

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

25.

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

26.

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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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

28.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

30.

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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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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

33.

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

Morley, Christopher

34.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

35.

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

Sam Levenson

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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

40.

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

Norman Douglas

41.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

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

Peter Ustinov

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

45.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

46.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

48.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

49.

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.

50.

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

Ball, Lucille