Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Wilmot, John

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

Plomp, John

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bombeck, Erma

10.

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

11.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

12.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

13.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

14.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

15.

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

16.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

17.

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

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

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

John J. Plomp

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

22.

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

23.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

28.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

29.

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

30.

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

Dorothy Parker

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

34.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

35.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

36.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

37.

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

Peter Ustinov

38.

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

39.

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

Robert Byrne

40.

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

Mary MacCracken

41.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

Angelou, Maya

43.

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

44.

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

Freud, Sigmund

45.

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

46.

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

Phyllis Diller

47.

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

Daniel Raeburn

48.

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

Capp, Al

49.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.

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