Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

10.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

11.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

12.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

13.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

14.

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

Moses, Robert

15.

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

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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

17.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

18.

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

19.

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

Mead, Margaret

20.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

21.

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

Norman Douglas

22.

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

23.

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

John J. Plomp

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Morley, Christopher

26.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

28.

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

Phyllis Diller

29.

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

30.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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 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

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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

37.

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

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Capp, Al

40.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

41.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

42.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

43.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

45.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

47.

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

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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.

50.

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

Mary MacCracken