Motivational Quotes

Children

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Proverb

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

Norman Douglas

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

10.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

11.

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

12.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

16.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

17.

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

18.

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

Groucho Marx

19.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

20.

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

Watts, Isaac

21.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

22.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

23.

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

24.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

30.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Moustakas, Clark

32.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

33.

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

Robert Orben

34.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

35.

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

36.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

37.

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

Lewin, Roger

38.

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

Oscar Wilde

39.

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.

40.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

41.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

42.

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

Jameson, Anna

43.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

44.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

45.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

47.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

48.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton