Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

Groucho Marx

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.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

Plomp, John

12.

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

Dorothy Parker

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

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

Norman Douglas

18.

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

Capp, Al

19.

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

20.

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

Rabbinical Saying

21.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

22.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

26.

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

Oscar Wilde

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

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

John J. Plomp

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

33.

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

34.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

35.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

36.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

37.

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

Wilmot, John

38.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

39.

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

40.

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

41.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

42.

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

Ziglar, Zig

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

45.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

46.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

48.

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

49.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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