Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Eliot, George

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

John Gray

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Ovid

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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 is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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 distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Capp, Al

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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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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June