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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

10.

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

11.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

12.

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

13.

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

Lawana Blackwell

14.

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

Mead, Margaret

15.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

16.

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

17.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

John J. Plomp

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

22.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

23.

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

Kraus, Karl

24.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

25.

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

Crane, Monta

26.

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

Moustakas, Clark

27.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

28.

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

29.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

32.

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

33.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Hunt, Leigh

45.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

47.

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

Abbott, Lyman

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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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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