Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilbur, Ray L.

Best Quotes about Children

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Kraus, Karl

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Phyllis Diller

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

John J. Plomp

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Moses, Robert

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Churchill, Winston

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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 are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Lewin, Roger

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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

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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Robert Orben

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

Montessori, Maria

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Ruskin, John

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