Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Moustakas, Clark

Best Quotes about Children

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Robert Orben

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Baldwin, James

10.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

12.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

13.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

14.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

15.

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

Hunt, Leigh

16.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

17.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

18.

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

19.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

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

Wiesel, Elie

21.

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

Bruce Barton

22.

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

23.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

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

29.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

30.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

31.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

33.

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

Moustakas, Clark

34.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

35.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

37.

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

38.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

39.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

41.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

42.

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.

43.

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

Jameson, Anna

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Freud, Sigmund

47.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

48.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.