Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Children

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Norman Douglas

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Ovid

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Capp, Al

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

Chase, Alexander

10.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

11.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

12.

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.

13.

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

Robert Orben

14.

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

15.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

16.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

17.

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

18.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

19.

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

Rabbinical Saying

21.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

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

23.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

24.

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

25.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hulbert, Harold

27.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

28.

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

29.

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

Freud, Sigmund

30.

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

31.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

32.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

36.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

37.

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

38.

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

Edwards, Harry

39.

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

40.

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

Nash, Ogden

41.

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

42.

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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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

44.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

45.

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.

46.

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

Montessori, Maria

47.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

48.

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

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.