Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Crane, Monta

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

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Churchill, Winston

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Nash, Ogden

10.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

12.

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

13.

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

Montessori, Maria

14.

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

15.

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

Jameson, Anna

16.

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

Moses, Robert

17.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

18.

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

Peter Ustinov

19.

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

Bombeck, Erma

20.

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

Phyllis Diller

21.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

22.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

25.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

27.

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

Plomp, John

28.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

29.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

34.

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

35.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

36.

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

Daniel Raeburn

37.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

38.

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

39.

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

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

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

42.

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

43.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

44.

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

45.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

46.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

47.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

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

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Norman Douglas