Motivational Quotes

Children

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Children

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Robert Orben

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

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

12.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

13.

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

14.

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

Peter Ustinov

15.

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.

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

17.

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

Crane, Monta

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

20.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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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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

23.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

25.

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

Lawana Blackwell

26.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

27.

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

Capp, Al

28.

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

Nash, Ogden

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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

35.

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

Who, Dr.

36.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

37.

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

38.

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

Baldwin, James

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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

40.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

41.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

42.

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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

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

45.

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

Bruce Barton

46.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

47.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

48.

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

49.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

50.

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