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

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Dick Cavett

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Ovid

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edwards, Harry

10.

It takes three to make a child.

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

11.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

Hulbert, Harold

13.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

19.

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

20.

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

Moustakas, Clark

21.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

22.

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

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

25.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

26.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

27.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

28.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Capp, Al

31.

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

Jameson, Anna

32.

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

Chase, Alexander

33.

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

34.

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

Wilmot, John

35.

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

Ruskin, John

36.

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

Baldwin, James

37.

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

38.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

40.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Crane, Monta

44.

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

Waitley, Denis

45.

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

46.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

47.

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

Who, Dr.

48.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

49.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell