Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Children

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Kraus, Karl

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

11.

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

Peter Ustinov

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Ruskin, John

15.

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

16.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

17.

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

18.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

19.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

20.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

21.

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

Rabbinical Saying

22.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

23.

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

24.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

25.

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

26.

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

Robert Orben

27.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

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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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

30.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

31.

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

Ball, Lucille

32.

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

Nash, Ogden

33.

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

34.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

36.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

37.

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

Oscar Wilde

38.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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

40.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

42.

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

Phyllis Diller

43.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Hulbert, Harold