Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

John Gray

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

Moustakas, Clark

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Bruce Barton

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

Wilmot, John

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

Pope, Alexander

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.

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

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

16.

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

Rabbinical Saying

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Mary MacCracken

19.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

21.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

22.

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

Crane, Monta

23.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

24.

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

Hunt, Leigh

25.

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

26.

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

Peter Ustinov

27.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

28.

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

Sam Levenson

29.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

Watts, Isaac

31.

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

32.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

33.

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

Bombeck, Erma

34.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

Wiesel, Elie

39.

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

40.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

41.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

42.

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

43.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

44.

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

Freud, Sigmund

45.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

46.

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

Edwards, Harry

47.

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

Dick Cavett

48.

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

Baldwin, James

49.

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.