Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Baldwin, James

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

Dogen

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Montessori, Maria

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

10.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

11.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

12.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

13.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

14.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

John J. Plomp

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Wiesel, Elie

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

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.

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

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

30.

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

Moses, Robert

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

33.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

34.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

35.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

36.

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

37.

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

Plomp, John

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

41.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

43.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

44.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

45.

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

46.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

47.

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

48.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

49.

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

50.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.