Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Groucho Marx

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

Menninger, Karl A.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.