Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Norman Douglas

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

10.

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

11.

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

14.

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

Proverb, English

15.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

16.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Freud, Sigmund

20.

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

21.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

22.

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Capp, Al

24.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

25.

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

Jameson, Anna

27.

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

Chase, Alexander

28.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

29.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

31.

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

Parker, Dorothy

32.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

33.

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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

35.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

36.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

37.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

39.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.

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

Dogen

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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 are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

46.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

47.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

48.

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

Groucho Marx

49.

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

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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