Motivational Quotes

Children

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Ovid

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

10.

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

11.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

12.

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

13.

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

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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

15.

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

16.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

17.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

18.

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

19.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

21.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

22.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

23.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

24.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

25.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

26.

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

Montessori, Maria

27.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

28.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

29.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

30.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

31.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

32.

It takes three to make a child.

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

33.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

34.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

35.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

36.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

37.

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

Epictetus

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.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

40.

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

Robert Byrne

41.

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

Hulbert, Harold

42.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

43.

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

Peter Ustinov

44.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

45.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

46.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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

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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

49.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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.