Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

- FeNelon, Francois

Best Quotes about Children

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Proverb

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bible

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Dick Cavett

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

Parker, Dorothy

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

12.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

13.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

15.

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

Jameson, Anna

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Gray, Thomas

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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

19.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

20.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

21.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

22.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Waitley, Denis

24.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

25.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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.

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

Crane, Monta

28.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

32.

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

Moustakas, Clark

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

35.

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

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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

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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

40.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

41.

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

42.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

43.

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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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

49.

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess