Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

10.

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

11.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

12.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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

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

King Edward VIII

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Who, Dr.

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Bruce Barton

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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

40.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Ovid

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

Ziglar, Zig

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