Motivational Quotes

Children

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

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

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

10.

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

11.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

12.

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

Jameson, Anna

13.

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

Rabbinical Saying

14.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

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

Sam Levenson

16.

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

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

18.

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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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

20.

It takes three to make a child.

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

21.

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

Norman Douglas

22.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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

24.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

25.

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

King Edward VIII

26.

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

Watts, Isaac

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

28.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

29.

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

Ovid

30.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

31.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

32.

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

33.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

34.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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.

36.

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

Montessori, Maria

37.

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

Dogen

39.

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

Lewin, Roger

40.

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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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

42.

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

Moses, Robert

43.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

44.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

45.

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

Hulbert, Harold

48.

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

49.

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

Edwards, Harry

50.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo