Motivational Quotes

Children

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

- Lamb, Charles

Best Quotes about Children

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

Moses, Robert

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Robert Orben

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

10.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

11.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

12.

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

13.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

15.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

16.

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

Pope, Alexander

17.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

18.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

19.

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

Sam Levenson

20.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

21.

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

22.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

23.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

24.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

25.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

26.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

27.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

28.

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

29.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

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

Baldwin, James

31.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

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

Hunt, Leigh

35.

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

Crane, Monta

36.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

37.

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

38.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

39.

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

Bombeck, Erma

40.

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

41.

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

Rabbinical Saying

42.

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

43.

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

Wilmot, John

44.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

45.

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

46.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

47.

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

Bible

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.