Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Children

1.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

2.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

3.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

4.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

5.

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

Baldwin, James

6.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Fran Lebowitz

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

13.

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

Baldwin, James

14.

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

Morley, Christopher

15.

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.

16.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

18.

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

Robert Orben

19.

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

20.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

21.

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

22.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

23.

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

Angelou, Maya

24.

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

25.

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

Ruskin, John

26.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

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

Dick Cavett

28.

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

29.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

30.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

31.

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

32.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

35.

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

Moustakas, Clark

36.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

37.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

38.

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

Jameson, Anna