Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Jameson, Anna

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Crane, Monta

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

10.

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

Plomp, John

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Ruskin, John

14.

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

Mary MacCracken

15.

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

Morley, Christopher

16.

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

17.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

18.

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

19.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

20.

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

Parker, Dorothy

21.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

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

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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

24.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

25.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

26.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

27.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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.

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

Peter Ustinov

30.

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

31.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

32.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

36.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

37.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

38.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

39.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

40.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

41.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

42.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

43.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

44.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

45.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

46.

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

Freud, Sigmund

47.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

48.

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

49.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.

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