Motivational Quotes

Children

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

- Lair, Dr. Jess

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Rabbinical Saying

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Moses, Robert

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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 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

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

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

Chase, Alexander

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

25.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

33.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Who, Dr.

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

John Gray

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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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

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

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

46.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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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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