Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

12.

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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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

15.

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

Moses, Robert

16.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

19.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

20.

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

21.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

22.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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

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

Norman Douglas

25.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

Watts, Isaac

29.

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

Edwards, Harry

30.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

38.

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

Peter Ustinov

39.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

40.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Groucho Marx

42.

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

Jameson, Anna

43.

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

Proverb

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.