Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dick Cavett

Best Quotes about Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Edwards, Harry

14.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

15.

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

Waitley, Denis

16.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

17.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

18.

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

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

Nash, Ogden

20.

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

Proverb, English

21.

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

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

Capp, Al

24.

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

25.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

26.

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

27.

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

Crane, Monta

28.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

29.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

30.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

31.

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

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

34.

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

Jameson, Anna

35.

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

36.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

37.

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

Lawana Blackwell

38.

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

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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.

40.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

41.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

42.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

Robert Orben

44.

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

45.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

46.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

47.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

48.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

49.

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

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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