Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Phyllis Diller

Best Quotes about Children

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

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

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Norman Douglas

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

Epictetus

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ovid

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Baldwin, James

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Robert Orben

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

Capp, Al

26.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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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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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.

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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

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

Rabbinical Saying

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman