Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Children

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Norman Douglas

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

10.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

11.

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

12.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

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

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

17.

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

Edwards, Harry

18.

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

19.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

20.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

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

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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

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

26.

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

Hulbert, Harold

27.

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

King Edward VIII

28.

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

29.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Who, Dr.

32.

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

Lawana Blackwell

33.

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

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

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

Baldwin, James

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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

38.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

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

Proverb, English

42.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

43.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

44.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

45.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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

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

Dick Cavett

48.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Eliot, George

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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