Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Baldwin, James

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Baldwin, James

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

11.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

12.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

13.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

Wiesel, Elie

15.

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

Phyllis Diller

16.

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

Watts, Isaac

17.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

18.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

19.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

20.

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

21.

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

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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

23.

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

24.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

29.

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

Ovid

30.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

31.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Capp, Al

34.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

35.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

39.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

40.

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

Plomp, John

41.

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

Hunt, Leigh

42.

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

Dogen

43.

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

Moses, Robert

44.

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

Montessori, Maria

45.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

47.

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

Ruskin, John

48.

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

Mead, Margaret

49.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

50.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales