Motivational Quotes

Children

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

- Phyllis Diller

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Kraus, Karl

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montessori, Maria

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Ball, Lucille

10.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

11.

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

12.

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

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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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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.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

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

Mead, Margaret

17.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

18.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

19.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

20.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

23.

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

Norman Douglas

24.

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

Lawana Blackwell

25.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

27.

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

Fran Lebowitz

28.

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

Jameson, Anna

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

33.

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

34.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

35.

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

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

38.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

39.

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

Peter Ustinov

40.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

41.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

42.

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

Capp, Al

43.

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

John Gray

44.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

45.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

46.

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

47.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

48.

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

Robert Byrne

49.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

50.

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