Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Children

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

Sam Levenson

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

John Gray

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

Nash, Ogden

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

10.

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

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

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

13.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

14.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

15.

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

16.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

18.

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

Hunt, Leigh

19.

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

Peter Ustinov

20.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

21.

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

22.

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

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.

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

25.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

27.

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

Wiesel, Elie

28.

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

29.

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

Abbott, Lyman

30.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

33.

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

Watts, Isaac

34.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

35.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

37.

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

Lawana Blackwell

38.

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.

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

41.

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

Edwards, Harry

42.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

43.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

44.

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

Capp, Al

45.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

46.

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

47.

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

Moustakas, Clark

48.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

49.

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

50.

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

Shakespeare, William