Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Morley, Christopher

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Waitley, Denis

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

10.

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

11.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

13.

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

Montessori, Maria

14.

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

15.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

16.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

17.

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

18.

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

Hulbert, Harold

19.

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

20.

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

Peter Ustinov

21.

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

22.

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

Pope, Alexander

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

26.

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.

27.

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

Robert Byrne

28.

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

Angelou, Maya

29.

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

Phyllis Diller

30.

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

Robert Orben

31.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

32.

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

33.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

34.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

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

Crane, Monta

42.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

46.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

47.

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

48.

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

Wiesel, Elie

49.

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

50.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird