Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Rabbinical Saying

Best Quotes about Children

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

John Gray

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

10.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

11.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Watts, Isaac

15.

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

16.

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

Hulbert, Harold

17.

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

Peter Ustinov

18.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

19.

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

Chase, Alexander

20.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

21.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

22.

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

23.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Ovid

27.

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

28.

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

Sam Levenson

29.

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

30.

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

Daniel Raeburn

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

Waitley, Denis

33.

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

Dogen

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Hunt, Leigh

36.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

37.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

38.

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

Jameson, Anna

39.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

41.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

42.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

43.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

44.

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

45.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

46.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Groucho Marx