Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Spark, Muriel

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Clark, Frank A.

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

There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

Gardner, Robert

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Spark, Muriel

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

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

Darrow, Clarence

12.

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

Koop, C. Everett

13.

Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

Jennings, Elizabeth

14.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Cosby, Bill

15.

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

Williams, Shirley

16.

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

Paul, Jean

17.

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.

18.

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

Henker, Dr.

19.

To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

French, Marilyn

20.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

21.

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

22.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

23.

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

Talmud, The

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Bible

26.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

27.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

30.

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

Davis, Bette

31.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

32.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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.

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Mumford, Lewis

36.

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

37.

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

Clark, Frank A.

38.

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

Plato

39.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Bacon, Francis

40.

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

West, Jessamyn

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

Dryden, John

43.

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

44.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

45.

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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.

47.

Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

Cosby, Bill

48.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

49.

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

Waitley, Denis

50.

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