Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Children

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Kraus, Karl

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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.

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

Jameson, Anna

12.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

13.

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

Dick Cavett

14.

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

16.

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

17.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

18.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

19.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

20.

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

21.

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

Baldwin, James

22.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

23.

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

Robert Orben

24.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

25.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

30.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

31.

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

32.

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

Chase, Alexander

33.

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

34.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

35.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Robert Orben

40.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Gray, Thomas

42.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

43.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

44.

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

Hunt, Leigh

45.

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

46.

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

John Gray

47.

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

Montessori, Maria

48.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

49.

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

50.

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