Motivational Quotes

Children

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

- Tauscher, Stacia

Best Quotes about Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Robert Orben

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

John Gray

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

11.

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

Moustakas, Clark

12.

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

13.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

14.

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

Dogen

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

17.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

20.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

21.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

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

23.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

24.

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

Watts, Isaac

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.

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

27.

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

Chase, Alexander

28.

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

29.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

30.

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

Angelou, Maya

31.

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

32.

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

Moses, Robert

33.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Robert Orben

39.

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

Groucho Marx

40.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

41.

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

Abbott, Lyman

42.

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

43.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

44.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

45.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

46.

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

Norman Douglas

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.

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

49.

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

Picasso, Pablo

50.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas