Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Norman Douglas

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Robert Orben

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lawana Blackwell

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

16.

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

17.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

21.

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

Mary MacCracken

22.

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

John J. Plomp

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Moses, Robert

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Dick Cavett

30.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

31.

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

32.

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

33.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

35.

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

36.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

37.

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

Morley, Christopher

38.

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

Chase, Alexander

39.

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

Mead, Margaret

40.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

42.

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

43.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

46.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo