Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lewin, Roger

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

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

John Gray

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Morley, Christopher

10.

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

11.

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

12.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

13.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

14.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

18.

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

Watts, Isaac

19.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

20.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

21.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Dorothy Parker

28.

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

Chase, Alexander

29.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

30.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

31.

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

Oscar Wilde

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

35.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

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

37.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

38.

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

Peter Ustinov

39.

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

Moses, Robert

40.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Plomp, John

44.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

45.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

48.

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

49.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

50.

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