Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jameson, Anna

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

11.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

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.

14.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

15.

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

Watts, Isaac

16.

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

Waitley, Denis

17.

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

Daniel Raeburn

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

20.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

21.

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

23.

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

24.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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 miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

27.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

28.

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

Proverb, English

29.

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

30.

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

Kraus, Karl

31.

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

32.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

33.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

34.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

35.

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

36.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

37.

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

Chase, Alexander

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

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

Mead, Margaret

41.

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

42.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

43.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

44.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

45.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

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

King Edward VIII

47.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

48.

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

Morley, Christopher

49.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

50.

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

Bruce Barton