Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hulbert, Harold

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

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 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.

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Moses, Robert

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

Ovid

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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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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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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

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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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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Angelou, Maya

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Phyllis Diller

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Robert Orben

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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