Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Bible

10.

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

Robert Byrne

11.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

12.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

13.

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

14.

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

15.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

16.

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.

17.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

18.

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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

20.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

21.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

22.

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

Wiesel, Elie

23.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

24.

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

Watts, Isaac

25.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

26.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

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

John Gray

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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

Angelou, Maya

30.

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

Bombeck, Erma

31.

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

32.

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

Norman Douglas

33.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

34.

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

35.

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

Peter Ustinov

36.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

37.

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

38.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

39.

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

Moustakas, Clark

40.

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

Plomp, John

41.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

42.

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

Lewin, Roger

43.

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

44.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Rabbinical Saying