Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dogen

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Waitley, Denis

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

10.

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

14.

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

Moses, Robert

15.

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

Abbott, Lyman

16.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

17.

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

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

Jameson, Anna

20.

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

21.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Morley, Christopher

25.

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

Mary MacCracken

26.

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

27.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

30.

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

Edwards, Harry

31.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

32.

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

Montessori, Maria

33.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

34.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

John J. Plomp

38.

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

39.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

40.

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

Phyllis Diller

41.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

42.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

43.

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

Daniel Raeburn

44.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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