Motivational Quotes

Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

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

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

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

10.

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

11.

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

Norman Douglas

12.

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

Gray, Thomas

13.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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.

17.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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

Phyllis Diller

21.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

Baldwin, James

23.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

24.

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

25.

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

Wiesel, Elie

26.

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

Ziglar, Zig

27.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

28.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Oscar Wilde

34.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

36.

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

37.

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

Bombeck, Erma

38.

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

39.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

40.

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

41.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

42.

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

Moses, Robert

43.

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

Hunt, Leigh

44.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

45.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

46.

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

47.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

48.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

49.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

50.

The wildest colts make the best horses.