Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lewin, Roger

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Gray, Thomas

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Ruskin, John

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

10.

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

Wilmot, John

11.

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

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

13.

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

Oscar Wilde

14.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

15.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

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.

17.

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

Freud, Sigmund

18.

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

19.

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

Morley, Christopher

20.

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

John Gray

21.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

22.

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

23.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

24.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

25.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

26.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

27.

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

28.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

Phyllis Diller

30.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

33.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

34.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

35.

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

Hunt, Leigh

36.

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

Dick Cavett

37.

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

Proverb, English

38.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

39.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

40.

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

Epictetus

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

45.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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