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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

10.

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

Lawana Blackwell

11.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

12.

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

Angelou, Maya

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

17.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

18.

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

Who, Dr.

19.

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

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

21.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

22.

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

23.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.

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

Rabbinical Saying

25.

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

26.

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

27.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Mead, Margaret

31.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

32.

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

33.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

34.

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

Plomp, John

35.

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

Montessori, Maria

36.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

37.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Bible

39.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

40.

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

41.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

42.

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

43.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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

45.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess