Motivational Quotes

Children

Children need models rather than critics.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Children

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

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

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Angelou, Maya

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Ball, Lucille

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

10.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

11.

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

Norman Douglas

12.

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

13.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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

King Edward VIII

16.

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

Lewin, Roger

17.

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

Daniel Raeburn

18.

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

Moustakas, Clark

19.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

20.

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

Jameson, Anna

21.

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

Peter Ustinov

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

25.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

26.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

31.

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

Capp, Al

32.

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

33.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

36.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

37.

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

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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

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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

40.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Proverb, English

43.

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

Sam Levenson

44.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

45.

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

Edwards, Harry

46.

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

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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.

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

49.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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