Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

King Edward VIII

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

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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

10.

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

11.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

12.

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

Rabbinical Saying

13.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Watts, Isaac

17.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

18.

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

19.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

20.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

25.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

26.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Lawana Blackwell

30.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

34.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

35.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

36.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

37.

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

38.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

39.

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

Ruskin, John

40.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

41.

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

Dogen

42.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

43.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

44.

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

Angelou, Maya

45.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

46.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

47.

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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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.

49.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

50.

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

Franklin, Benjamin