Motivational Quotes

Children

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Morley, Christopher

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

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

Ruskin, John

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Waitley, Denis

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

10.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

11.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

12.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

13.

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

Bruce Barton

14.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

15.

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

16.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

17.

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

Moses, Robert

18.

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

Oscar Wilde

19.

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

20.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Robert Orben

24.

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

Who, Dr.

25.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

29.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

30.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

31.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

32.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

33.

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

Mary MacCracken

34.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

35.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

36.

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

Robert Orben

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.

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

39.

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

40.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

41.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

42.

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

43.

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

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.

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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

46.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

47.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

48.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

49.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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