Motivational Quotes

Children

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

Shakespeare, William

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Peter Ustinov

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

12.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

13.

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

Dogen

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

16.

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

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

19.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

20.

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

Montessori, Maria

21.

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

Baldwin, James

22.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

23.

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

Hulbert, Harold

24.

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

25.

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

26.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

29.

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

Dick Cavett

30.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

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

Proverb, English

32.

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

Lawana Blackwell

33.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

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

35.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

40.

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.

41.

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

Moses, Robert

42.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson