Motivational Quotes

Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

- Bill Watterson

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

Abbott, Lyman

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Watts, Isaac

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

13.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

14.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

15.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

16.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

Daniel Raeburn

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

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

21.

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

Crane, Monta

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Robert Byrne

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

39.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

40.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

41.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

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

43.

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

45.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

46.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

49.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Wilmot, John