Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Children

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Plomp, John

It takes three to make a child.

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

10.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

11.

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

12.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

13.

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

14.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

15.

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

Abbott, Lyman

16.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

17.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

22.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

23.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

24.

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

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.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Robert Orben

30.

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

31.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

34.

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

Rabbinical Saying

35.

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

Robert Byrne

36.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

37.

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

38.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Dogen

43.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

44.

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

Freud, Sigmund

45.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

46.

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

Montessori, Maria

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.

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

Mead, Margaret

49.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

50.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English