Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Ruskin, John

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

Baldwin, James

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Robert Byrne

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lawana Blackwell

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

John Gray

13.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

15.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

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

Fran Lebowitz

17.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

18.

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

Rabbinical Saying

19.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

20.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

21.

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

22.

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

23.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

24.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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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

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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

27.

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

28.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

29.

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

30.

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

Oscar Wilde

31.

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

Mead, Margaret

32.

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

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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

34.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

35.

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

36.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

37.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

38.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

39.

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

40.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

41.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

44.

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

45.

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

Plomp, John

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

50.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies