Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Norman Douglas

Best Quotes about Children

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

John Gray

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

Peter Ustinov

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

15.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lewin, Roger

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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

28.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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

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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

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Robert Orben

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Daniel Raeburn