Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Children

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

Plomp, John

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hulbert, Harold

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.

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

Ruskin, John

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

10.

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

11.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

12.

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

13.

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

Waitley, Denis

14.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

15.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

16.

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

Moses, Robert

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

21.

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

Lawana Blackwell

22.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

23.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

24.

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

25.

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

Peter Ustinov

26.

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

27.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

28.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

29.

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

30.

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

Lewin, Roger

31.

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

Bruce Barton

32.

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

33.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

34.

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

35.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

36.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

Watts, Isaac

38.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

39.

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

Robert Byrne

40.

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

Picasso, Pablo

41.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

42.

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

Crane, Monta

43.

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

Hunt, Leigh

44.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Angelou, Maya

48.

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

Wiesel, Elie

49.

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

Wilde, Oscar

50.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty