Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Mary MacCracken

Best Quotes about Children

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ball, Lucille

10.

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

11.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

Edwards, Harry

13.

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

Ruskin, John

14.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

15.

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

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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.

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

19.

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

20.

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

21.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

22.

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

23.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

24.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

29.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

30.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

31.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

32.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

33.

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

Moses, Robert

34.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

35.

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

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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

37.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

38.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

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

48.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

49.

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

50.

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