Motivational Quotes

Children

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Children

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

John J. Plomp

16.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

17.

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

18.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

19.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

20.

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

21.

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

Wilmot, John

22.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

25.

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

Hulbert, Harold

26.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

27.

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

28.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

29.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

30.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

31.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Mary MacCracken

35.

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

36.

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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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

38.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

39.

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

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

42.

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

Bombeck, Erma

43.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

44.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

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

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