Motivational Quotes

Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

- Bill Watterson

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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.

10.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

14.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

15.

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

16.

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

17.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

18.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

20.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

21.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

22.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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.

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

25.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

26.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

27.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

28.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

33.

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

King Edward VIII

34.

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

35.

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

Moustakas, Clark

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Rabbinical Saying

39.

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

40.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

41.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

42.

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

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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

44.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

45.

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

Ball, Lucille

46.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

47.

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

Peter Ustinov

48.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

49.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

50.

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