Motivational Quotes

Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

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

Kraus, Karl

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Gray, Thomas

12.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

13.

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

Robert Byrne

14.

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

15.

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

16.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

17.

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

Hunt, Leigh

18.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

19.

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

Robert Orben

20.

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

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

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

23.

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

Watts, Isaac

24.

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

25.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

26.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

27.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

28.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

29.

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

30.

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

Mead, Margaret

31.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

John Gray

36.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

37.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

38.

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

39.

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

John J. Plomp

40.

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

41.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

43.

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

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

Capp, Al

45.

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

Bombeck, Erma

46.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

47.

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.

48.

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

Crane, Monta

49.

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

50.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus