Motivational Quotes

Children

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

11.

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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

13.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

17.

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

Robert Orben

18.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

Edwards, Harry

21.

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

Robert Orben

22.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

23.

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

24.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

25.

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

Bruce Barton

27.

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 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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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

30.

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

Moustakas, Clark

31.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

32.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

33.

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

Sam Levenson

34.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Dick Cavett

38.

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

39.

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

46.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

48.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Buck, Pearl S.