Motivational Quotes

Children

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

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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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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

18.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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.

20.

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

Who, Dr.

21.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Capp, Al

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ovid

31.

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 are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Norman Douglas

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

44.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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