Motivational Quotes

Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Children

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

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

Dogen

11.

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

12.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

13.

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

14.

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

Bruce Barton

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

20.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

21.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

22.

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

Daniel Raeburn

23.

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

Crane, Monta

24.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

25.

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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Watts, Isaac

28.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

Bombeck, Erma

31.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

32.

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

Lewin, Roger

33.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

36.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

40.

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

41.

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

Lawana Blackwell

42.

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

43.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

44.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

45.

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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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.

47.

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

Kraus, Karl

48.

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

49.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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