Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Norman Douglas

Best Quotes about Children

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

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Ovid

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

King Edward VIII

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Groucho Marx

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Robert Orben

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Lair, Dr. Jess