Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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 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

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

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

12.

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

13.

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.

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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

15.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

16.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

17.

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

Moustakas, Clark

18.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

19.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

27.

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

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

Mead, Margaret

31.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

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

33.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

34.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

35.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

39.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

42.

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

43.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Rabbinical Saying

47.

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

Jameson, Anna

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.