Motivational Quotes

Children

Never have children, only grand children.

- Vidal, Gore

Best Quotes about Children

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Epictetus

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

10.

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

Edwards, Harry

11.

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

Rabbinical Saying

12.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

14.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gray, Thomas

16.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

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

21.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

24.

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

Plomp, John

25.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

26.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

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

Hulbert, Harold

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

32.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

33.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

34.

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

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

Bible

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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

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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

Robert Orben

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

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.

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.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Ovid

49.

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

Lawana Blackwell

50.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le