Motivational Quotes

Children

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

- Lewin, Roger

Best Quotes about Children

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Edwards, Harry

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bruce Barton

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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.

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

12.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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

16.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

17.

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

Moustakas, Clark

18.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

19.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

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

23.

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

Nash, Ogden

24.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

25.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

28.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

29.

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

Baldwin, James

30.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

31.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

32.

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

33.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

34.

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

Wiesel, Elie

35.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

36.

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

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

38.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

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

40.

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.

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

Picasso, Pablo

43.

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

44.

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

Rabbinical Saying

45.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

46.

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

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Never have children, only grand children.