Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Children

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

Epictetus

It takes three to make a child.

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

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

10.

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

Abbott, Lyman

11.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

12.

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

13.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

15.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

16.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

18.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

19.

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

Sam Levenson

20.

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

Bruce Barton

21.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

22.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

23.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

24.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

28.

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

Montessori, Maria

29.

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

30.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

32.

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

Lawana Blackwell

33.

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

34.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

35.

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.

36.

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

Fran Lebowitz

37.

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

38.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

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

Baldwin, James

40.

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

41.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

42.

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

Peter Ustinov

43.

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

Ovid

44.

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.

45.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

46.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Angelou, Maya

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