Motivational Quotes

Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Peter Ustinov

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.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Ovid

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.

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

William Shakespeare

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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

John J. Plomp

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark