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

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

Freud, Sigmund

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Jones, Franklin P.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

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.

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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

11.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

12.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Robert Orben

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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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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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Lawana Blackwell

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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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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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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Robert Orben

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.