Famous Parenting Quotes
Parenting is a delightful and rewarding experience, but it also comes with an immense responsibility. As a parent, you need to patiently guide and groom the little ones in your custody to the right path.
Parenthood does not come with manuals, which means that you have to make deliberate efforts to learn everyday. It is mostly about living an examplary life, setting the pace so that your children can follow.
In this article, you will find lovely quotes about parenting that will keep you inspired and help you see the beauty and humor involved in raising children.
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65 Amazing Parenting Quotes Of All Time
“Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” — Matthew Jacobson
“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”― Bill Ayers
“Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.” — Elisabeth Hasselbeck
“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.” — Gary Smalley
“Motherhood has completely changed me. It’s just about like the most completely humbling experience that I’ve ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can’t stand up to those principles when you’re raising a child, forget it.” — Diane Keaton
“Parenthood…it’s about guiding the next generation and forgiving the last.” — Peter Krause
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” — Linda Wooten
“We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.”― Phyllis Diller
“I came to parenting the way most of us do — knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.” — Mayim Bialik
“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.” –Anne Frank
“I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.”― C. JoyBell C.
“The beauty of motherhood is not in the freshly pressed shirts and smiling photos we show the world. The beauty of motherhood is in the folds and creases of our lives, the grimaces and tantrums, the moments when we have to grit our teeth to get through, when we pound on windows and yell and scream and demand better of each other and ourselves.” — Robyn Passante
“Parenting without a sense of humor is like being an accountant who sucks at math.” — Amber Dusick
“The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.” — Ewan McGregor
“I don’t know what’s more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you’re doing.” ― Jim Gaffigan
“There are so many quiet times you spend as a mother that aren’t glorified but are a foundation for your kids. No matter what, there was always a thick safety net under this trapeze.” — Tina Fey
“My worst parenting moments, the ones I am least proud of, happened because I was trying to impress a bunch of strangers I’ll probably never see again.” — Janel Mills
“For me, being a mother made me a better professional, because coming home every night to my girls reminded me what I was working for. And being a professional made me a better mother, because by pursuing my dreams, I was modeling for my girls how to pursue their dreams.” — Michelle Obama
“If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you’re making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can’t find a towel or a sponge or your ‘inside’ voice.” ― Kelly Corrigan
“Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on. As with any risk, you have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of wonderful people for their help and guidance. I thank God every day for giving me the opportunity to parent.” ― Maria Shriver
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future,” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”― James Baldwin
“It is time for parents to teach young people that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” –Maya Angelou
“When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.” –Thomas Edison
“The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.” — Drew Barrymore
“Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.” — Jillian Michaels
“No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you’ve got, say “Oh, my gosh,” and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It’s not a question of choice.” ― Marisa de los Santos
“Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they’re born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.” — Ray Romano
“Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” — Lady Bird Johnson
“I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.” — Reese Witherspoon
“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”― John Wilmot
“To you who are parents, I say, show love to your children. You know you love them, but make certain they know it as well. They are so precious. Let them know. Call upon our Heavenly Father for help as you care for their needs each day and as you deal with the challenges which inevitably come with parenthood. You need more than your own wisdom in rearing them.”― Thomas S. Monson
“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.”― Bill Cosby
“While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, ‘I love you’ to me for the first time. It sounded like ‘All lub boo,’ but I didn’t care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.”― Jim Beaver
“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”― Robert A. Heinlein
“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..”― John Steinbeck
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”― Plato
“A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?”― Stephen Colbert
“…the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”― Louisa May Alcott
“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”― Dorothy Parker
“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.”― Barbara Johnson
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”― Emilie Buchwald
“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.”― Lisa Wingate
“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.” –Bette Davis
“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” — Peggy O’Mara
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” ― Franklin P. Adams
“Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody… as a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.” — Annie Lennox
“People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She’s number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.” — Imelda May
“No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.” — Alan Arkin
“My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.” — Wilma Rudolph
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” ― Benjamin Spock
“The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward.” — Melissa Rivers
“If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown,give him support. ”― Osho
“Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.”― Ray Romano
“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.”― Cheryl Lacey Donovan
“I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don’t be a whiner.”― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ”― Erma Bombeck
“I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.” — Maya Angelou
“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.” — Jackie Kennedy
“To raise a child, it sometimes takes a village…but sometimes that village should shut up and mind their own business.” — Susan McLean
“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.” ― Anne Lamott
“I looked on childrearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honourable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.” — Rose Kennedy
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” –Oscar Wilde
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”― Umberto Eco
“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.”― Nicholas Sparks
