Motivational Quotes

Children

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Ziglar, Zig

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Nash, Ogden

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

10.

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

Plomp, John

11.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

12.

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

Watts, Isaac

13.

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

Groucho Marx

14.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

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

16.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

17.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

18.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

19.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

20.

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

Moustakas, Clark

21.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

22.

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

23.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

24.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

25.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Angelou, Maya

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

35.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Abbott, Lyman

37.

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

Crane, Monta

38.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

39.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

40.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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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

44.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

46.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

47.

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

Chase, Alexander

48.

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

49.

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

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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