Motivational Quotes

Children

Children need models rather than critics.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Plomp, John

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

10.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

11.

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

Groucho Marx

12.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

13.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

14.

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

15.

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

Gray, Thomas

16.

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

Ziglar, Zig

17.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

18.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

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

Sam Levenson

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

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

Bombeck, Erma

23.

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

Robert Byrne

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

26.

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

27.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

28.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

29.

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

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

32.

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

33.

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

Montessori, Maria

34.

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.

35.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

36.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

37.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

38.

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

39.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

40.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Kraus, Karl

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

49.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall