Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about 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

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Baldwin, James

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

Wilmot, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Robert Orben

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

Mary MacCracken

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

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

Who, Dr.

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Epictetus

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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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Robert Byrne

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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