Motivational Quotes

Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

- Bill Watterson

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Freud, Sigmund

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

10.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

Oscar Wilde

13.

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

Lawana Blackwell

14.

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

15.

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

Picasso, Pablo

16.

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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

18.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

19.

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

Waitley, Denis

20.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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

22.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

23.

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

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

25.

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

Robert Orben

26.

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

27.

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

Mary MacCracken

28.

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

Bombeck, Erma

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

32.

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

33.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Jones, Franklin P.

39.

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

40.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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

43.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

44.

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

Bruce Barton

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

48.

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

Mead, Margaret

49.

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

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy