Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Ball, Lucille

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Dogen

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

10.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

11.

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

12.

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

Robert Orben

13.

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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

15.

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

16.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

17.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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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

25.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

26.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

27.

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

Phyllis Diller

28.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Freud, Sigmund

33.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

34.

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

35.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

36.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Groucho Marx

40.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

41.

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

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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 enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

45.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

49.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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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