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

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

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

Dogen

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Dick Cavett

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

12.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

13.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

16.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

17.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

18.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

19.

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

Wiesel, Elie

20.

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

22.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

27.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

Moses, Robert

34.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

35.

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

Groucho Marx

36.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

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

40.

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

Lewin, Roger

41.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

42.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

43.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

Who, Dr.

45.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

46.

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.

47.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

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

Crane, Monta

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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