Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Cottle, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Bible

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Baldwin, James

10.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

13.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

19.

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

20.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

21.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

22.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

23.

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

24.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

25.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

27.

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

Freud, Sigmund

28.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

29.

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

Dogen

30.

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

31.

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

Capp, Al

32.

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

33.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

34.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

35.

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

36.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

37.

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

Robert Orben

38.

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

Angelou, Maya

39.

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

40.

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

Phyllis Diller

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Daniel Raeburn

43.

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

44.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

48.

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

Jameson, Anna

49.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

50.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess