Motivational Quotes

Children

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

- Shan, Eda J. Le

Best Quotes about Children

1.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

2.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

3.

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

4.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

5.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

6.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

7.

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

Jameson, Anna

8.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

9.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

10.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

11.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

12.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

13.

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.

14.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

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

18.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

19.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

20.

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

21.

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

Fran Lebowitz

22.

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

23.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

25.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

Oscar Wilde

27.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

28.

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

29.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

30.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

31.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

32.

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

John Gray

33.

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

Moustakas, Clark

34.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

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

Plomp, John

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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.

38.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

39.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

42.

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

Norman Douglas

43.

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

44.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

45.

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

46.

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

Dorothy Parker

47.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

48.

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

Montessori, Maria

49.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

50.

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