Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Wilmot, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Moses, Robert

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Lewin, Roger

10.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

11.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

12.

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

Freud, Sigmund

13.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

16.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

22.

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

23.

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

24.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

26.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

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

Robert Orben

29.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

30.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

31.

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

Lawana Blackwell

32.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

33.

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

Abbott, Lyman

34.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

35.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

36.

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

38.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

39.

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

Robert Byrne

40.

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

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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

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

Rabbinical Saying

43.

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

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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

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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

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

48.

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Chase, Alexander