Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Oscar Wilde

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Curie, Madame Marie

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Fran Lebowitz

14.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

16.

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

King Edward VIII

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

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

Ovid

19.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

20.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

21.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

22.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

27.

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

John Gray

28.

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

Morley, Christopher

29.

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

Hulbert, Harold

30.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

31.

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

Lewin, Roger

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

34.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

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

Baldwin, James

36.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

37.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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

39.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

40.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

41.

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

John J. Plomp

42.

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

Moses, Robert

43.

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

Angelou, Maya

44.

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

45.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

46.

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

47.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

48.

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

49.

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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus