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

Best Quotes about Children
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
Moustakas, Clark
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Dick Cavett
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Proverb
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
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Keillor, Garrison
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
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
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare
Children are the keys of paradise.
Stoddard, Richard Henry
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
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
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Franklin, Benjamin
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Wilde, Oscar
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
Cottle, Thomas J.
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
Dogen
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Kennedy, John F.
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Bill Watterson
Adults are obsolete children.
Seuss, Dr.
Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Proverb, English
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
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
Edwards, Harry
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Jones, Franklin P.
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Mead, Margaret
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
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
We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.
Eucharista Ward
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
Lois McMaster Bujold
It's fun being a kid.
Angier, Bradford Arthur
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken
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
What is done to children, they will do to society.
Menninger, Karl A.
A child is fed with milk and praise.
Lamb, Mary
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
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
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Baldwin, James
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Long, Lazarus
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
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
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Wiesel, Elie
Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
Hope, Bob
Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.
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
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller
No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
Taylor, Jeremy
Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.
Saki
Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.
Dobson, Dr. James C.
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
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