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

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

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Oscar Wilde

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Waitley, Denis

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

10.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

11.

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

12.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

John Gray

16.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

18.

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

Groucho Marx

19.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

20.

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

21.

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

Dorothy Parker

22.

It takes three to make a child.

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

23.

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

24.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

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

Robert Orben

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

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

Moustakas, Clark

28.

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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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

30.

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.

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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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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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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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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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

41.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

42.

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

43.

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

Hulbert, Harold

44.

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

45.

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

John J. Plomp

46.

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

Norman Douglas

47.

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