Motivational Quotes
Children
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.

Best Quotes about Children
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Hoover, Herbert Clark
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
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
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Ziglar, Zig
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Dick Cavett
Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
Watts, Isaac
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
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Jameson, Anna
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
Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.
There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
Baldwin, James
Children are the keys of paradise.
Stoddard, Richard Henry
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Novalis
Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
Gray, Thomas
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 unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Jones, Franklin P.
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
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.
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.
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
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Montessori, Maria
We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Lair, Dr. Jess
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
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
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
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
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
It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
Fyfe, David
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Fielding, Henry
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
Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.
Saki
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Buck, Pearl S.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
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
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
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Franklin, Benjamin
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Tauscher, Stacia
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
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Johnson, Lady Bird
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
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
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Hulbert, Harold
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
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 you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas
Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
Hope, Bob
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Moses, Robert
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