Motivational Quotes
Children
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.

Best Quotes about Children
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.
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Pope, Alexander
It takes three to make a child.
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
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
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
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Larkin, Philip
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
Bradshaw, John
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Fielding, Henry
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Lawana Blackwell
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
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
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
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
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Vaughan, Bill
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Angelou, Maya
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Smith, Logan Pearsall
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
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
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Wilde, Oscar
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Proverb
Never have children, only grand children.
Vidal, Gore
Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal
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
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
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Curie, Madame Marie
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Abbott, Lyman
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Ball, Lucille
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Wiesel, Elie
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
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Moses, Robert
We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Lair, Dr. Jess
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
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
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Jones, Franklin P.
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
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
Plomp, John
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Novalis
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
Eliot, George
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Epictetus
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
Jordan, June
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
Lawana Blackwell
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