Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Sam Levenson

Best Quotes about Children

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Norman Douglas

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

Daniel Raeburn

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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

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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

12.

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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

14.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Peter Ustinov

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Ovid

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Lewin, Roger

27.

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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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 rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb