Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Proverb, English

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

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

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.

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

Eliot, George

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

10.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

11.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

12.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

John Gray

15.

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

Fran Lebowitz

16.

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

Bombeck, Erma

17.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

18.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Chase, Alexander

23.

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

Angelou, Maya

24.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

25.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Groucho Marx

29.

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

30.

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

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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

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

34.

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

Plomp, John

35.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

36.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

37.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

38.

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

Dick Cavett

39.

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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

42.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

43.

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

Baldwin, James

44.

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

Phyllis Diller

45.

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

Robert Orben

46.

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

Abbott, Lyman

47.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

48.

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

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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

50.

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

Proverb