Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Children

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

Bruce Barton

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

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

Montessori, Maria

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

12.

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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

38.

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

Robert Orben

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Ruskin, John

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Baldwin, James

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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

Chase, Alexander

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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