Inspirational Parents Quotes

I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

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

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

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.

The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

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

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

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

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

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

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

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.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.