Motivational Quotes
Children
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.

Best Quotes about Children
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Buck, Pearl S.
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabbinical Saying
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
Updike, John
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid
What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Wilde, Oscar
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray
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
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Hulbert, Harold
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
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Kraus, Karl
The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
Ruskin, John
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Montessori, Maria
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Bill Watterson
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Lawana Blackwell
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
Swift, Jonathan
The child is the father of the man.
Wordsworth, William
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
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
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Smith, Logan Pearsall
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
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
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Proverb
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Fielding, Henry
Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Chase, Alexander
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
Ruskin, John
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Gibran, Kahlil
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
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
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Proverb
It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
Fyfe, David
Our children change us... whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Waitley, Denis
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Hoover, Herbert Clark
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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