Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Rabbinical Saying

Best Quotes about Children

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Bombeck, Erma

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Plomp, John

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

16.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

17.

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

Morley, Christopher

18.

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

Robert Byrne

19.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

20.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

24.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

26.

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

John Gray

27.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

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

Crane, Monta

29.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

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

Moses, Robert

31.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

32.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

33.

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

Gray, Thomas

34.

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

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

36.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

37.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

38.

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

Lawana Blackwell

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

42.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

43.

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

Who, Dr.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

47.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

48.

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

49.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

50.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal