Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lair, Dr. Jess

Best Quotes about Children

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Ovid

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Groucho Marx

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

10.

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

11.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

12.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

13.

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

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

16.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

17.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

18.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

19.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

20.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

21.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

22.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

23.

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

Lawana Blackwell

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

28.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

29.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

30.

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.

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

33.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

37.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

John Gray

41.

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

42.

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

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.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

45.

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

Oscar Wilde

46.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

47.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

48.

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

49.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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