Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Groucho Marx

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Franklin, Benjamin

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

15.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

20.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

21.

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

22.

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

Robert Orben

23.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

24.

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

Rabbinical Saying

25.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

26.

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

27.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

28.

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

Watts, Isaac

29.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

30.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

31.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

32.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

33.

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

Waitley, Denis

34.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

35.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

36.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

37.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

38.

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

39.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

41.

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

John Gray

42.

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

43.

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

46.

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