Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

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

Who, Dr.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Norman Douglas

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

13.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

14.

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

15.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

16.

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

17.

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

Phyllis Diller

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

Daniel Raeburn

20.

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

Hunt, Leigh

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

24.

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

Robert Byrne

25.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

26.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

27.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

28.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

29.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

30.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

31.

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

Lawana Blackwell

32.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

33.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

35.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

36.

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

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

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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

43.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

44.

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

45.

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

Oscar Wilde

46.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

48.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

49.

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

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

Proverb