Motivational Quotes

Children

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Byrne

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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Angelou, Maya

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Baldwin, James

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

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Norman Douglas

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

Bruce Barton

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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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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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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Groucho Marx

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Edwards, Harry

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ball, Lucille

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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.

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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

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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