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

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Dick Cavett

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

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

Wilmot, John

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

Peter Ustinov

10.

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

11.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

13.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

14.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

17.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

18.

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

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

21.

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

Groucho Marx

22.

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

23.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

29.

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

30.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

31.

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

Bruce Barton

32.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

33.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

34.

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

Bombeck, Erma

35.

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

36.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

37.

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

Robert Byrne

38.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

39.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

40.

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

41.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

42.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

43.

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

44.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

45.

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

Sam Levenson

46.

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

Jameson, Anna

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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