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.

- Keillor, Garrison

Best Quotes about Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Epictetus

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

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

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

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

10.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

12.

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

13.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

16.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

18.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

20.

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

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

24.

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

Hulbert, Harold

25.

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

Proverb

26.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

27.

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

Montessori, Maria

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

33.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

34.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

35.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

37.

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

Picasso, Pablo

38.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

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.

41.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Sam Levenson

44.

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

45.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

46.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

47.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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