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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Dick Cavett

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Gray, Thomas

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Curie, Madame Marie

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

10.

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

11.

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

Abbott, Lyman

12.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

13.

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

14.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

15.

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.

16.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

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

19.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

20.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

21.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

22.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

23.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

24.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

25.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

26.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

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

Freud, Sigmund

28.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

32.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

33.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

34.

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

Phyllis Diller

35.

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

Rabbinical Saying

36.

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

37.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

38.

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

39.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

40.

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

41.

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

Nash, Ogden

42.

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

Plomp, John

43.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

44.

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

Robert Orben

45.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

46.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

47.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

48.

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

Proverb, English

49.

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

50.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De