Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

John Gray

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

Groucho Marx

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Sam Levenson

13.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ovid

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Jones, Franklin P.

20.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Robert Orben

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

25.

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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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

27.

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

Plomp, John

30.

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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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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Groucho Marx

36.

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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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.

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

Fran Lebowitz

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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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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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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

45.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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

48.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

49.

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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen