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

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Bible

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

John J. Plomp

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Ruskin, John

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

Kraus, Karl

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Chase, Alexander

10.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

11.

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

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

14.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

15.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

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

Bombeck, Erma

21.

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

Hunt, Leigh

22.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

24.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

28.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

30.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

31.

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

32.

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

33.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

34.

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

35.

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.

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

37.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

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

Rabbinical Saying

39.

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

Crane, Monta

40.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

41.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

42.

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

43.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

47.

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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

49.

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