Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

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

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Robert Orben

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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

Robert Byrne

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Morley, Christopher