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

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Crane, Monta

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Nash, Ogden

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

10.

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

11.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

13.

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

Jameson, Anna

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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

17.

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.

18.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

19.

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

Edwards, Harry

20.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

23.

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

Robert Byrne

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

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

Montessori, Maria

27.

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

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.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

36.

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

37.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

40.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

41.

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

42.

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

Robert Orben

43.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

44.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

45.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

46.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

47.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

48.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

49.

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

50.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred