Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Norman Douglas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bruce Barton

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

10.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

11.

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

12.

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

Jameson, Anna

13.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

14.

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

Proverb, English

15.

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

17.

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

Rabbinical Saying

18.

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

19.

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

22.

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

23.

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

Kraus, Karl

24.

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

Robert Orben

25.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

26.

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

27.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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

Capp, Al

31.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

32.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

33.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

34.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

35.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

39.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

40.

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

41.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

42.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

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

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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

45.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

46.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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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

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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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Waitley, Denis