Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Children

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, James

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

10.

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

Montessori, Maria

11.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

12.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

13.

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

Dick Cavett

14.

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

15.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Kraus, Karl

17.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

18.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

Morley, Christopher

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

23.

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

Peter Ustinov

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Mead, Margaret

27.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

34.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

35.

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

36.

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

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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

38.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

39.

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

King Edward VIII

40.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

41.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

42.

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

Rabbinical Saying

43.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

44.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

45.

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

John J. Plomp

46.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

47.

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

Robert Byrne

48.

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

49.

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

Moustakas, Clark

50.

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

Jones, Franklin P.