Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Baldwin, James

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

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.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lewin, Roger

10.

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

11.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

12.

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

Morley, Christopher

13.

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

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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

15.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

16.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

25.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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

30.

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

Picasso, Pablo

31.

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

32.

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

Hunt, Leigh

33.

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.

34.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

35.

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

36.

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

Crane, Monta

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

38.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

41.

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

Ziglar, Zig

42.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

45.

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

46.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

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

King Edward VIII

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

Proverb, English