Motivational Quotes

Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Children

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

Bruce Barton

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Morley, Christopher

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Dorothy Parker

11.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Nash, Ogden

13.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

14.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

15.

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

16.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

17.

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

18.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

21.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

27.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

31.

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

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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

Chase, Alexander

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

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

39.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

40.

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

Bombeck, Erma

41.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

42.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

43.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

44.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

45.

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

Plomp, John

46.

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

47.

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

Montessori, Maria

48.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

49.

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

Waitley, Denis

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