Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Moses, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Ziglar, Zig

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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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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

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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

Groucho Marx

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

Ovid

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Bible

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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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.

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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

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

Montessori, Maria

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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