Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Dogen

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

10.

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

Hunt, Leigh

11.

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

Phyllis Diller

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Picasso, Pablo

19.

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

20.

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

Fran Lebowitz

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

John Gray

27.

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

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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

29.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

30.

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

Freud, Sigmund

31.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

32.

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

Robert Byrne

33.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

34.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

35.

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

36.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

38.

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

Rabbinical Saying

39.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

40.

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

41.

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

Waitley, Denis

42.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

43.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

44.

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

45.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

47.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

48.

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

Pope, Alexander

49.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

50.

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