Motivational Quotes

Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

John Gray

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

Proverb, English

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

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

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

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

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Robert Orben

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Eliot, George

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Who, Dr.

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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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

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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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 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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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