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

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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

10.

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

11.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

12.

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

Bruce Barton

13.

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

Nash, Ogden

14.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

15.

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

16.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

17.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

18.

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

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

21.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

22.

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

23.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

24.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

27.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

28.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Mary MacCracken

31.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

32.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

33.

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

Watts, Isaac

34.

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

35.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

36.

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

37.

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

Gray, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

Lewin, Roger

40.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, English

44.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

45.

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

Moustakas, Clark

46.

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

47.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

48.

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

Wilde, Oscar

49.

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

50.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.