Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Edwards, Harry

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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

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

11.

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

Bruce Barton

12.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

13.

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

Hulbert, Harold

14.

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

15.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

16.

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

John J. Plomp

17.

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

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

20.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

21.

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

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Proverb, English

24.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

25.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Rabbinical Saying

31.

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

32.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

33.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

34.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

35.

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

Wilmot, John

36.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

37.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

38.

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.

39.

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

Wiesel, Elie

40.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

41.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

44.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

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

47.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

48.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

49.

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

50.

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.