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

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

10.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

11.

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

John J. Plomp

12.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

14.

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

Edwards, Harry

15.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

16.

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

17.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

18.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

19.

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

20.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

21.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

22.

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

23.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

24.

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

25.

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

Hulbert, Harold

26.

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

Fran Lebowitz

27.

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

Montessori, Maria

28.

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

Bruce Barton

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Dogen

31.

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

32.

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

Oscar Wilde

33.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

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

35.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

36.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

37.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

38.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

39.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

40.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

43.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

44.

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

45.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

46.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

47.

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

48.

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

Jameson, Anna

49.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

50.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David