Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

Phyllis Diller

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

13.

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

14.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

15.

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

Crane, Monta

16.

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

Rabbinical Saying

17.

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

18.

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

Lawana Blackwell

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

21.

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

King Edward VIII

22.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Watts, Isaac

26.

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

Proverb, English

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.

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

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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

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

32.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

33.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

34.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

35.

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

36.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

37.

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

Ovid

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.

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

Gray, Thomas

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.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

42.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

43.

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

Nash, Ogden

44.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

45.

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

46.

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

47.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

48.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

49.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

50.

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