Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Watts, Isaac

Best Quotes about Children

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Epictetus

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Dick Cavett

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

King Edward VIII

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.

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

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

13.

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

Dogen

14.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

15.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

16.

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

John Gray

17.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

20.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

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

Mary MacCracken

24.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

25.

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

Oscar Wilde

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Kraus, Karl

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

31.

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

32.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

35.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Parker, Dorothy

39.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

40.

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

Wilmot, John

41.

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

42.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

44.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

47.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

48.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

49.

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

50.

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