Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Dick Cavett

10.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Peter Ustinov

18.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Robert Orben

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Edwards, Harry

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Morley, Christopher

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Robert Orben

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Ziglar, Zig

49.

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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth