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

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

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

Nash, Ogden

10.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

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

Montessori, Maria

13.

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

14.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

15.

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

Abbott, Lyman

16.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

19.

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

Rabbinical Saying

20.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

21.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

22.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

23.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

24.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

25.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

26.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

27.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

28.

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

29.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

30.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Angelou, Maya

32.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

33.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

37.

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

38.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

39.

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

40.

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

Hulbert, Harold

41.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

42.

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

43.

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

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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

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

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

John J. Plomp

47.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

48.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

49.

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

Lawana Blackwell

50.

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

Robert Orben