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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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.

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.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

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.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

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

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.

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.

~[My son] is at that age now where he’s so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~