Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Wilmot, John

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Oscar Wilde

10.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

11.

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

12.

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

King Edward VIII

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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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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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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

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

Robert Orben

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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

Chase, Alexander

22.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, 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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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

25.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

28.

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

Bruce Barton

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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

31.

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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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 unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Hulbert, Harold

37.

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

Ball, Lucille

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

40.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

43.

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

44.

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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine