Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Chase, Alexander

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

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

Sam Levenson

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Moustakas, Clark

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Dorothy Parker

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

10.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

11.

It takes three to make a child.

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

12.

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

13.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

14.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Morley, Christopher

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Bombeck, Erma

19.

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

20.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

23.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

24.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

25.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

28.

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

Ball, Lucille

29.

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

Mead, Margaret

30.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

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.

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

Epictetus

34.

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

Peter Ustinov

35.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

36.

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

40.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Phyllis Diller

44.

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

45.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

50.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta