Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Byrne

Best Quotes about Children

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Ziglar, Zig

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Robert Orben

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

11.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

12.

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

Lewin, Roger

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Chase, Alexander

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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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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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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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

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

Phyllis Diller

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

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

Dick Cavett

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson