Motivational Quotes

Children

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about Children

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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

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

Mary MacCracken

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

10.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

11.

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

Montessori, Maria

12.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

13.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

14.

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

15.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

19.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

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

John Gray

21.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Groucho Marx

25.

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

26.

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

John J. Plomp

27.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

28.

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

Abbott, Lyman

29.

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

Moustakas, Clark

30.

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

31.

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

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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

33.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

Angelou, Maya

36.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

37.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

38.

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

39.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

40.

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

Morley, Christopher

41.

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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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

43.

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

45.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

46.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

47.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

48.

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

49.

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

William Shakespeare

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch