Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Bible

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

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Phyllis Diller

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

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

12.

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

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

15.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

19.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

20.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Norman Douglas

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Abbott, Lyman

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

27.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

28.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

29.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

30.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

31.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

32.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

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

34.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

35.

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

36.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

37.

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

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

40.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

41.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

42.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

44.

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.

45.

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

Robert Byrne

46.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

47.

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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare