Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Children

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

13.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

14.

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

Morley, Christopher

15.

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

Daniel Raeburn

16.

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

Montessori, Maria

17.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

18.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

19.

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

20.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

21.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

Moses, Robert

23.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

24.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

25.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Freud, Sigmund

29.

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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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

31.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

32.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

33.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

34.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

35.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

36.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

37.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

38.

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

Gray, Thomas

39.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Fran Lebowitz

41.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

42.

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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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

45.

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.

46.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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

50.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David