Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Moses, Robert

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.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Robert Orben

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Robert Orben

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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

King Edward VIII

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

Dick Cavett

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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

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Churchill, Winston

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