Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Groucho Marx

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

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Moses, Robert

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

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

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

Ball, Lucille

13.

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

Lewin, Roger

14.

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

Plomp, John

15.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

16.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

17.

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

18.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

19.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

20.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

21.

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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

23.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

25.

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

26.

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

Abbott, Lyman

27.

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

28.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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

30.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

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

35.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

36.

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

37.

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

John J. Plomp

38.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

39.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

40.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

41.

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.

42.

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.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

44.

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

Edwards, Harry

45.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Jordan, June