Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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 dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Robert Orben

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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.

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

Peter Ustinov

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Capp, Al

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Wilmot, John

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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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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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 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 are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De