Motivational Quotes

Children

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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

Montessori, Maria

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Wilmot, John

10.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Gray, Thomas

14.

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

15.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

16.

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

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Rabbinical Saying

22.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

23.

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

Dick Cavett

24.

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

25.

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

Daniel Raeburn

26.

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

27.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

28.

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

29.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

30.

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

Hunt, Leigh

31.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

32.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

33.

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

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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

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.

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

37.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

38.

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

39.

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

Mead, Margaret

40.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

45.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

46.

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

47.

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

Watts, Isaac

48.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

49.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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