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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Tauscher, Stacia

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Mead, Margaret

11.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

12.

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

Edwards, Harry

13.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

14.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

15.

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

Eliot, George

16.

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

17.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

18.

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

19.

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

Lawana Blackwell

20.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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

22.

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

John J. Plomp

23.

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

Hunt, Leigh

24.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

25.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

26.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

27.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

28.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

29.

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

Robert Byrne

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

32.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

33.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

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

35.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

36.

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

Dorothy Parker

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

41.

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

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

43.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

44.

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

Angelou, Maya

45.

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

Rabbinical Saying

46.

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

47.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

48.

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

49.

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

Norman Douglas

50.

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

Franklin, Benjamin