Motivational Quotes

Children

The wildest colts make the best horses.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Children

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Who, Dr.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Eliot, George

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Ovid

13.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

14.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Picasso, Pablo

19.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

20.

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

Nash, Ogden

21.

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

22.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

23.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

24.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

25.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

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

Waitley, Denis

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Watts, Isaac

30.

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

Bombeck, Erma

31.

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

Groucho Marx

32.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

33.

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

Mary MacCracken

34.

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

John Gray

35.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

37.

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

38.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

40.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

41.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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.

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

Wilmot, John

44.

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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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

46.

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

John J. Plomp

47.

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

Montessori, Maria

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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

49.

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

Wiesel, Elie

50.

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