Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Curie, Madame Marie

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Shakespeare, William

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

John Gray

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Proverb

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

10.

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

Robert Orben

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

14.

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

Dogen

15.

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

16.

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

Mary MacCracken

17.

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

Robert Byrne

18.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Phyllis Diller

30.

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

Bruce Barton

31.

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

Daniel Raeburn

32.

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

33.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

38.

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

Hunt, Leigh

39.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

40.

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

Rabbinical Saying

41.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

42.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

43.

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

44.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

45.

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

46.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

47.

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

John J. Plomp

48.

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

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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 worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia