Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Maynard, Joyce

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

West, Jessamyn

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

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Priestley, J. B.

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Levine, Michael

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Williams, Shirley

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Plato

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

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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

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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

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

Hendren, L. L.

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

Cosby, Bill

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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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