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 takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

John Gray

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Menninger, Karl A.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

10.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

13.

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

Norman Douglas

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Dick Cavett

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

Mary MacCracken

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Churchill, Winston

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Moses, Robert

33.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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