Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Who, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

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

Proverb

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Groucho Marx

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shakespeare, William

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

19.

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

King Edward VIII

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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

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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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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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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Plomp, John

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

41.

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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Eliot, George

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Ovid