Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Mary MacCracken

Best Quotes about Children

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

Bible

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

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

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Sam Levenson

10.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

11.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

12.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

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

Edwards, Harry

14.

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

15.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

19.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

20.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

21.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

24.

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

Plomp, John

25.

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

26.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

28.

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

Chase, Alexander

29.

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.

30.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

31.

It takes three to make a child.

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

32.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Groucho Marx

36.

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

37.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

38.

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

Eliot, George

39.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

40.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

41.

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

42.

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

Picasso, Pablo

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

47.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

48.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

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

50.

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

Ball, Lucille