Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Dorothy Parker

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

10.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

11.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

12.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

14.

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

Morley, Christopher

15.

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

Crane, Monta

16.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

17.

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

18.

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

Wilmot, John

19.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

20.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

22.

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

Kraus, Karl

23.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

24.

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

Moses, Robert

25.

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.

26.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Bruce Barton

30.

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

Rabbinical Saying

31.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

32.

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

Ovid

33.

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

34.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

40.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

41.

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

Angelou, Maya

42.

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

Robert Byrne

43.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

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

45.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

46.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

49.

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

Norman Douglas

50.

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

Abbott, Lyman