Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Bruce Barton

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.

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

Robert Byrne

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

John Gray

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Jameson, Anna

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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

John J. Plomp

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

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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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Mary MacCracken

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Robert Orben

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Dorothy Parker

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

34.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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

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

Plomp, John

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

Crane, Monta

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Proverb, English

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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

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

Who, Dr.

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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

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Ovid