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

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

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

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

Groucho Marx

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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Angelou, Maya

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

John J. Plomp

18.

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

Robert Orben

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Groucho Marx

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English