Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- John Gray

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb

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

Who, Dr.

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

Baldwin, James

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

13.

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

Kraus, Karl

14.

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

Moustakas, Clark

15.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

19.

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

20.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

21.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

22.

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

23.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

24.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

25.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Jameson, Anna

30.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

31.

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

Bruce Barton

32.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

33.

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

34.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

35.

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

Norman Douglas

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

42.

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

43.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

44.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

45.

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

Wilde, Oscar

46.

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

47.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

48.

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

Oscar Wilde

49.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

50.

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