Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Baldwin, James

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

10.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

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

12.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

13.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

14.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

18.

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

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

20.

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

Robert Orben

21.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

22.

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

Hunt, Leigh

23.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Chase, Alexander

25.

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

26.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

28.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

33.

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

Jameson, Anna

34.

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

Ovid

35.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

36.

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

37.

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

Rabbinical Saying

38.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

39.

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

40.

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

John Gray

41.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

42.

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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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

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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

45.

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

46.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

48.

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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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

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle