Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Who, Dr.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

13.

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

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

16.

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

17.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

18.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Jones, Franklin P.

21.

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

Proverb, English

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

25.

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

King Edward VIII

26.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

27.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

28.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

29.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

30.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

34.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

37.

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

38.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

39.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

40.

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

41.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

42.

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

Gray, Thomas

43.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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