Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Robert Byrne

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

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

10.

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

Edwards, Harry

11.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

12.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

16.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

17.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

Mead, Margaret

20.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

21.

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

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

King Edward VIII

23.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

24.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

27.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

30.

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

Freud, Sigmund

31.

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

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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.

33.

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

Watts, Isaac

34.

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

Dogen

35.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

36.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

37.

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

Eliot, George

38.

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

Sam Levenson

39.

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

40.

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

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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.

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

Bruce Barton

43.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

44.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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