Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Moustakas, Clark

10.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

13.

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

Dick Cavett

14.

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

15.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

16.

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

Dorothy Parker

17.

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

Watts, Isaac

18.

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

Crane, Monta

19.

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

Baldwin, James

20.

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

21.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

Hunt, Leigh

23.

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

Peter Ustinov

24.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

28.

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

Norman Douglas

29.

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

30.

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

Waitley, Denis

31.

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

32.

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

John J. Plomp

33.

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

34.

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

Chase, Alexander

35.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

36.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

37.

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

Plomp, John

38.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

39.

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

40.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

41.

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

Groucho Marx

42.

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

43.

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

Dogen

44.

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

45.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

46.

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.

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Freud, Sigmund

49.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois