Motivational Quotes

Children

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

- Spolin, Viola

Best Quotes about Children

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

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

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

Crane, Monta

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

Robert Orben

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

13.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

14.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

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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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

17.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

18.

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

John J. Plomp

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.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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

23.

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

Rabbinical Saying

24.

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

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

27.

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

Robert Orben

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

31.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

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Spolin, Viola

34.

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

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

37.

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

Watts, Isaac

38.

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

Abbott, Lyman

39.

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.

40.

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

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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

42.

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

Peter Ustinov

43.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

44.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

45.

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

Sam Levenson

46.

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

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

49.

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

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn