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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

Rabbinical Saying

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Plomp, John

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

10.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

11.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

12.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

15.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

20.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

21.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

22.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

23.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

24.

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

Wiesel, Elie

25.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

26.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

27.

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

John Gray

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Lawana Blackwell

35.

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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

37.

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

Abbott, Lyman

38.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

39.

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

40.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

41.

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

Robert Byrne

42.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

43.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

44.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

45.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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

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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

48.

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

49.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

50.

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

Proverb