Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ovid

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

Robert Orben

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

King Edward VIII

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Norman Douglas

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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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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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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 are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

Edwards, Harry

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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

Oscar Wilde

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rabbinical Saying