Motivational Quotes

Children

The wildest colts make the best horses.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Children

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Baldwin, James

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

John Gray

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

10.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

11.

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

Kraus, Karl

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Bombeck, Erma

15.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

16.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Bruce Barton

21.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

22.

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

Crane, Monta

23.

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

Gray, Thomas

24.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

25.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

26.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

27.

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

28.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

29.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

30.

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

31.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

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

33.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

34.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

35.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

36.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

37.

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

Norman Douglas

38.

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

Abbott, Lyman

39.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

40.

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

Robert Orben

41.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

42.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

43.

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

44.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

45.

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

46.

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

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

50.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.