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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Montessori, Maria

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

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

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

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

10.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

11.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

12.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

13.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

15.

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

John Gray

16.

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

17.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

18.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

23.

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

24.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

25.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

26.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

27.

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

28.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

29.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Lewin, Roger

31.

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

Gray, Thomas

32.

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

Proverb

33.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

34.

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

35.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

36.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

37.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

39.

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

40.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

41.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

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

Moustakas, Clark

43.

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

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

47.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

48.

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

Groucho Marx

49.

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

Hulbert, Harold

50.

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