Motivational Quotes

Children

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Dick Cavett

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

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Dyer, Wayne

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Edwards, Harry

10.

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

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

14.

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

Jameson, Anna

15.

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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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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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

18.

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

Capp, Al

19.

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

Watts, Isaac

20.

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

21.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

22.

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

Freud, Sigmund

23.

It takes three to make a child.

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

24.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

25.

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

26.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

30.

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

Sam Levenson

31.

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

32.

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

Hulbert, Harold

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

37.

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

Wilmot, John

38.

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

Baldwin, James

39.

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

40.

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

Mead, Margaret

41.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

42.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

43.

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

Kraus, Karl

44.

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

45.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

46.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

48.

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

49.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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