Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about Children

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

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.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

13.

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

14.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

16.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

17.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

18.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

20.

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

Angelou, Maya

21.

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

22.

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

Ball, Lucille

23.

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

24.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

25.

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

26.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

28.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

29.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Montessori, Maria

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

33.

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

Groucho Marx

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

36.

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

John J. Plomp

37.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

39.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

40.

It takes three to make a child.

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

41.

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

Mead, Margaret

42.

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

43.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

44.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Gray, Thomas

50.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson