Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ruskin, John

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

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Lewin, Roger

10.

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

11.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

12.

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

13.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

14.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

15.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

19.

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

20.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

21.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

22.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

23.

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

24.

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

Robert Byrne

25.

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

Mead, Margaret

26.

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

Wiesel, Elie

27.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

29.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

30.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

33.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

34.

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

Waitley, Denis

35.

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

36.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

37.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

38.

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

Crane, Monta

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

King Edward VIII

45.

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

46.

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

Dogen

47.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

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

49.

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

50.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry