Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ziglar, Zig

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Lawana Blackwell

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

10.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

11.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

14.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

15.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

16.

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

Norman Douglas

17.

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

18.

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

Jameson, Anna

19.

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

20.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

21.

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

Proverb, English

22.

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

Dorothy Parker

23.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

24.

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

25.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

26.

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

Ovid

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.

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.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

30.

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

31.

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

Crane, Monta

32.

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

33.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

34.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

35.

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

Moustakas, Clark

36.

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

Mary MacCracken

37.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

38.

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

Lewin, Roger

39.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

40.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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

43.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

44.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

45.

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

Robert Byrne

46.

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

47.

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.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

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

49.

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

50.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary