Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

10.

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

Wiesel, Elie

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

14.

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

15.

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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

17.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

18.

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

19.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

20.

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

21.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

22.

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

23.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

24.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

27.

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

28.

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

Fran Lebowitz

29.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

30.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

31.

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

32.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

33.

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

34.

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

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

36.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

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

38.

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

Baldwin, James

39.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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

Mary MacCracken

42.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

43.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

44.

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

Chase, Alexander

45.

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

Plomp, John

46.

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

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

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

49.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

50.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra