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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.

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.

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

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

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.