Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

King Edward VIII

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Proverb, English

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

Eliot, George

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

11.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

12.

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

13.

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

Lawana Blackwell

14.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

15.

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

16.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

17.

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

Rabbinical Saying

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Moustakas, Clark

22.

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

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

25.

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

26.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Mary MacCracken

30.

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

31.

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

Robert Orben

32.

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

Angelou, Maya

33.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

34.

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

35.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

36.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

37.

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

38.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

39.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Wilmot, John

45.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

46.

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

Hulbert, Harold

47.

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

48.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

49.

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

50.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh