Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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

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

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Peter Ustinov

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

John J. Plomp

11.

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

Lewin, Roger

12.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

13.

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

14.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

16.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Rabbinical Saying

19.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

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

21.

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

Moses, Robert

22.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

25.

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

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

John Gray

28.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Abbott, Lyman

30.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Dick Cavett

34.

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

Chase, Alexander

35.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

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.

37.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

38.

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

Fran Lebowitz

39.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

40.

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

41.

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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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

43.

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

Crane, Monta

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

49.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert