Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Robert Orben

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

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

10.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

13.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

14.

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Plomp, John

17.

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

18.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

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

King Edward VIII

20.

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

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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

22.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

23.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

24.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

25.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

26.

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

Capp, Al

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

30.

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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

33.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

34.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

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.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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

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

Wilmot, John

39.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

40.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Robert Orben

42.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

43.

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

Dorothy Parker

44.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

45.

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

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.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

48.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

49.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.