Motivational Quotes

Children

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Children

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Watts, Isaac

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

10.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

11.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

12.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

13.

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

14.

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

Phyllis Diller

15.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

17.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

24.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

25.

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

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

28.

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

Crane, Monta

29.

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

Bombeck, Erma

30.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

31.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

32.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

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

Groucho Marx

34.

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

Sam Levenson

35.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

36.

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

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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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

39.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

40.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

41.

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

42.

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

Rabbinical Saying

43.

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

44.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

45.

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

46.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

47.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold