Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

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

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Capp, Al

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

John Gray

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Jones, Franklin P.

10.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

11.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

16.

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

Moses, Robert

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

Jameson, Anna

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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

19.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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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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.

31.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

32.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

35.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Ovid

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Norman Douglas

48.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.