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

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

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

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

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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

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

Ovid

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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

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

Dick Cavett

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Pope, Alexander

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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