Motivational Quotes

Children

Children need models rather than critics.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Children

1.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

2.

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

3.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

7.

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

Freud, Sigmund

8.

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

Plomp, John

9.

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

10.

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

Edwards, Harry

11.

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

12.

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

Pope, Alexander

13.

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

Mead, Margaret

14.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

15.

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

John J. Plomp

16.

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

Waitley, Denis

17.

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

Nash, Ogden

18.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

19.

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

Hunt, Leigh

20.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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.

22.

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

Dogen

23.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

24.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Lawana Blackwell

27.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

28.

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

29.

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

Who, Dr.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

34.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

35.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

36.

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

Hulbert, Harold

37.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

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

Kraus, Karl

41.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

42.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

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

44.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

45.

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

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

48.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

49.

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

50.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac