Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Robert Orben

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

Morley, Christopher

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

10.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

12.

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

13.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

14.

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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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

16.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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

18.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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

20.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

21.

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

Abbott, Lyman

22.

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

Groucho Marx

23.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

John Gray

28.

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

Norman Douglas

29.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

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

31.

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.

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

33.

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

Daniel Raeburn

35.

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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

37.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

38.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

39.

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

Moses, Robert

40.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

42.

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

Hunt, Leigh

43.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

44.

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

Bruce Barton

45.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

46.

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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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.

48.

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

49.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

50.

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

Peter Ustinov