Browsing Topic Best Parenting Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Maybe we should spend less time teaching kids to believe in Santa and more time teaching them to believe in themselves.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Don’t let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it’s just as important to sit down and ask my son how he’s feeling or talk to him about life.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it’s a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.

Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.

If I had my child to raise all over again,I’d finger paint more, and point the finger less.I’d do less correcting, and more connecting.I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play.I’d run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I’d do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I’d build self esteem first, and the house later.I’d teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.