Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Parenting

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis (1878–1937) American Humorist, Journalist, Author

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American Inventor, Philosopher

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There’s nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American Republican Statesman, 41st President

If your children look up to you, you’ve made a success of life’s biggest job.
Unknown

Don’t set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.
Phyllis McGinley (1905–78) American Children’s Books Writer, Poet, Writer of Children’s Books

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Benjamin Spock (1903–98) American Pediatrician, Author

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.
English Proverb

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
Benjamin Spock (1903–98) American Pediatrician, Author

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.
Smiley Blanton

He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian-American Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst

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

Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.
Bill Cosby (b.1937) American Actor, Comedian, Activist, Producer, Author

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves. When we first bend over the cradle of our own child, God throws back the temple door, and reveals to us the sacredness and mystery of a father’s and a mother’s love to ourselves.—And in later years, when these have gone from us, there is always a certain sorrow, that we cannot tell them we have found it out.—One of the deepest experiences of a noble nature in reference to the loved ones that have passed beyond this world, is the thought of what he might have been to them, and done for them, if he had known, while they were living, what he has learned since they died.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune… to lose both seems like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way—yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer

The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.
Indian Proverb

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don’t want my kids to make.
Jane Fonda (b.1937) American Actress, Political Activist

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

It’s clear that most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem (b.1934) American Feminist, Journalist, Social Activist, Political Activist

The word no carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
Joyce Maynard (b.1953) American Novelist

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American Writer, Futurist

How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–72) British Poet, Critic

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Politician

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