Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Parenting Quotes
GrowthLoveParentingResponsibilitySelf-Improvement When you meet your kids, you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders, and you have to try and become the person that they deserve.
LegacyParentingPhilanthropyPurposeWealth I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
Child WelfareOversightParentingResponsibility Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
FamilyGuidanceParentingSupportUpbringing You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.
ConnectionExistenceFreedomLifeParenting Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
GuidanceImperfectionLearningMistakeParenting No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.
ConsequencesMoralityParentingReflectionResponsibility Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
AdaptationIdentityParentingPrivacy My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.
ChoiceFamilyLoveParentingPriorities I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.
AcceptanceParentingSelf-AcceptanceUnderstanding If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what 'good' parenting means.
BalanceDisciplineDutyLoveParenting Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.
EducationParentingPerseveranceResponsibility No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
ParentingResponsibility If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.
DedicationMusicParentingPerseveranceSkill My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
ParentingReverenceValue Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
ContinuityFuture GenerationsLegacyParenting One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.
FulfillmentHappinessJoyLoveParenting Really, it is all so worth it when you have your precious baby in the end.
FamilyJoyParenting My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it's the best thing you can have in your life.
DeterminationLegacyParentingPerseveranceTraining The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I'm going be training that child out the womb.
FamilyParentingServiceSociety Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
IntegrityKindnessParentingRole Modeling First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
ChildcareEducationParentingSchool SystemSociety K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
CareerFocusParentingPrioritizationStress Management I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.
CharacterEducationExampleParenting Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
ChallengeEmotionParentingUncertainty The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
FamilyHumorParenting The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
FutureGenerationParentingResponsibilitySociety Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
Health and NutritionParentingSelf-careSocietal ContributionsWomen S Role If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.