Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Freud, Sigmund

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

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

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

Watts, Isaac

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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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

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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

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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

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Rich, Adrienne

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Phyllis Diller

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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

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