Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Norman Douglas

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

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

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Peter Ustinov

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

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

Jameson, Anna

10.

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

11.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

12.

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

13.

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

John J. Plomp

14.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

15.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

16.

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

Sam Levenson

17.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

18.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

19.

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

Phyllis Diller

20.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

21.

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

22.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

23.

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

Wilmot, John

24.

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

25.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

26.

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

27.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

30.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

31.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

32.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

33.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

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

Oscar Wilde

35.

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

Mary MacCracken

36.

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

37.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

38.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

39.

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

40.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

41.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

42.

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

43.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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.

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

Proverb, English

48.

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

49.

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

Moses, Robert

50.

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