Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Robert Byrne

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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

14.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

15.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

16.

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

17.

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

John J. Plomp

18.

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

Oscar Wilde

19.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

22.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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

24.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

28.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

29.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

30.

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

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

33.

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

Peter Ustinov

34.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

35.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

36.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

38.

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

39.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

40.

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

41.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

47.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

48.

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

Capp, Al

49.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

50.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle