Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Children

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

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

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

Sam Levenson

10.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

11.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

12.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

16.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

17.

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

John J. Plomp

18.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

19.

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

Pope, Alexander

20.

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

21.

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

Peter Ustinov

22.

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

23.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

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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

27.

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

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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

29.

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.

30.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

31.

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

Montessori, Maria

32.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

33.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

34.

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

35.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Lawana Blackwell

38.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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

43.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

44.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

45.

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

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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.