Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Sam Levenson

Best Quotes about Children

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Bible

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

Wilde, Oscar

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Freud, Sigmund

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilmot, John

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

10.

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

John Gray

11.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

12.

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

13.

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

Groucho Marx

14.

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

Hulbert, Harold

15.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Sam Levenson

17.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

20.

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

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

Montessori, Maria

22.

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

Robert Byrne

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

25.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

26.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

27.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

28.

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

29.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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 child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

32.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

34.

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

35.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

37.

It takes three to make a child.

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

38.

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

Mary MacCracken

39.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

40.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

41.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

43.

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

Epictetus

45.

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

46.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

47.

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

Rabbinical Saying

48.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

49.

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

Plomp, John

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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