Motivational Quotes

Children

The child is the father of the man.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Children

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Robert Byrne

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.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Who, Dr.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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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

21.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

22.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

26.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Wilmot, John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dorothy Parker

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Moses, Robert

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Sam Levenson

40.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Norman Douglas

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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

King Edward VIII

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine