Motivational Quotes

Children

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

- Davis, Bette

Best Quotes about Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

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

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

10.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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.

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

Jameson, Anna

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

17.

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

Rabbinical Saying

18.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

Baldwin, James

20.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

21.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

22.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Sam Levenson

28.

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

29.

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

Bombeck, Erma

30.

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

31.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

32.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

33.

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

Robert Orben

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

36.

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

John Gray

37.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

38.

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

Morley, Christopher

39.

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

40.

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

Eliot, George

41.

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

Kraus, Karl

42.

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

43.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

44.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

45.

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

46.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

47.

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