Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Children

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

King Edward VIII

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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

Watts, Isaac

10.

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

11.

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

Dogen

12.

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

13.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

14.

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

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

18.

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

Crane, Monta

19.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

20.

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

Mary MacCracken

21.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

22.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

23.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Hunt, Leigh

33.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

34.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

35.

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

Nash, Ogden

36.

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

Baldwin, James

37.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

38.

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

39.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

40.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

41.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Rabbinical Saying

44.

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.

45.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

46.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

47.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

48.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

49.

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

50.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich