Motivational Quotes

Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Children

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Who, Dr.

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

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

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

10.

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

King Edward VIII

11.

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

12.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

13.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

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

Picasso, Pablo

16.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Jameson, Anna

19.

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

Edwards, Harry

20.

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.

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

25.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

26.

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

27.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

29.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

30.

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

31.

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

Sam Levenson

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, English

34.

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

Dogen

35.

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

36.

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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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

38.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

39.

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

Ovid

40.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

41.

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

Bombeck, Erma

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Wilmot, John

45.

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

Ball, Lucille

46.

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

Daniel Raeburn

47.

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

48.

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

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

50.

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