Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Chase, Alexander

Best Quotes about Children

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It takes three to make a child.

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

10.

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

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

Bruce Barton

14.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

15.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

16.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

18.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

19.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

20.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

21.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

22.

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

23.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

24.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

25.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

26.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

27.

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

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

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

Bible

30.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

31.

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

Moustakas, Clark

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Watts, Isaac

35.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

36.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

37.

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

38.

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

39.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

40.

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

Lewin, Roger

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.

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.

43.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

44.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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

Waitley, Denis

49.

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

Gray, Thomas

50.

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.