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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Gray, Thomas

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

10.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

11.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

12.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

13.

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

14.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

17.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

18.

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

Robert Orben

19.

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

Groucho Marx

20.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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

Moustakas, Clark

22.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

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

24.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

25.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

26.

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

27.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

28.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Morley, Christopher

32.

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

Watts, Isaac

33.

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

Robert Byrne

34.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

37.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

38.

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

Dogen

39.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

43.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

44.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

45.

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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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

47.

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

King Edward VIII

48.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

49.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

50.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther