Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Groucho Marx

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

14.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

15.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

16.

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

Lewin, Roger

17.

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

18.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

19.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

20.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

21.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

25.

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

26.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

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

29.

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

Ovid

30.

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

Abbott, Lyman

31.

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

Watts, Isaac

32.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

33.

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

34.

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

Robert Byrne

35.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

36.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

37.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

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

39.

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

Moustakas, Clark

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

Baldwin, James

44.

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

45.

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

Waitley, Denis

46.

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

47.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

50.

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