Motivational Quotes

Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

- Bill Watterson

Best Quotes about 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

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.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their 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

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Phyllis Diller

10.

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

Morley, Christopher

11.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

12.

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

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

15.

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

John J. Plomp

16.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

18.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

19.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

22.

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

23.

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

Robert Orben

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

Oscar Wilde

30.

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

Hulbert, Harold

31.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

Mead, Margaret

33.

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

John Gray

34.

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

35.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

41.

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

Proverb

42.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

44.

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

45.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

48.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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

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

Moustakas, Clark