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

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

10.

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

11.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Jameson, Anna

15.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

16.

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

Waitley, Denis

17.

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

Eliot, George

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Watts, Isaac

20.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

21.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

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.

23.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

25.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

26.

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

27.

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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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

29.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

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

Moustakas, Clark

31.

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

Mary MacCracken

32.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

33.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

34.

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

35.

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

Montessori, Maria

36.

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

Proverb

37.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

38.

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

39.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

40.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

41.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

42.

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

Freud, Sigmund

44.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

45.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

46.

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

47.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

48.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

49.

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

Churchill, Winston

50.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher