Motivational Quotes

Children

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Children

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Mead, Margaret

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

10.

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

Montessori, Maria

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Plomp, John

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

17.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

18.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

19.

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

Parker, Dorothy

20.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

23.

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

Dorothy Parker

24.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

25.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

26.

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

Abbott, Lyman

27.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

31.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

32.

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

33.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

34.

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

35.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Gray

38.

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

39.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

40.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

41.

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

Bruce Barton

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

47.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

48.

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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Lawana Blackwell