Motivational Quotes
Children
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.

Best Quotes about Children
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Kraus, Karl
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Epictetus
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Proverb, English
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Tauscher, Stacia
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
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
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Waitley, Denis
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare
Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Proverb
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
Be gentle with the young.
Juvenal
Children are the keys of paradise.
Stoddard, Richard Henry
Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Humphrey, Hubert H.
There is no sinner like a young saint.
Behn, Aphra
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Chase, Alexander
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
Moustakas, Clark
Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Dyer, Wayne
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
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Johnson, Lady Bird
Never have children, only grand children.
Vidal, Gore
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
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
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
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Proverb, English
We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
Morley, Christopher
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken
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
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
Dogen
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Bombeck, Erma
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.
It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
Fyfe, David
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
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Mead, Margaret
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
Hazzard, Shirley
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
Angelou, Maya
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Cox, Marcelene
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.
Shan, Eda J. Le
Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go
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