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

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

Epictetus

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Proverb, English

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

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

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

11.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

12.

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

Angelou, Maya

13.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Phyllis Diller

18.

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

19.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

21.

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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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

King Edward VIII

28.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

31.

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

Ball, Lucille

34.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

45.

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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

48.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Freud, Sigmund