Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

- Schumpeter, Joseph A.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.

Rothschild, William E.

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Macneil, Robert

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Waitley, Denis

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.

Priestley, J. B.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Spark, Muriel

The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.

Paul, Jean

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

Hill, Grant

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

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He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]

Bible

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Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Levine, Michael

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The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.

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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years.

Bombeck, Erma

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If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.

Koop, C. Everett

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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

Lennon, John

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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Aristotle

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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.

Henker, Dr.

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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Butler, Samuel

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The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Bloom, Allan

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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Dryden, John

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

West, Jessamyn

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Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Powell, Anthony

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Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

Keillor, Garrison

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When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Talmud, The

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The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

Maynard, Joyce

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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Marquis, Don

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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Frost, Robert

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Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Morrison, Jim

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Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Clark, Frank A.

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We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.

Hendren, L. L.

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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.