100 Inspirational Quotes about Parenting

Are you looking for inspirational quotes about being a parent?

Here are some I’ve found that have inspired me

“There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.” – Sue Atkins
“Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do.” – Matt Walsh
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
“It’s not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – C.S. Lewis
“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“The goal of parenting isn’t to create perfect kids. It’s to point them to the perfect God.” – Unknown
“Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.” – Jodie Picoult
“Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” – Matthew Jacobson
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” – Denis Waitley
“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.” – Abigail Van Buren
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.” – Jesse Jackson
“There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.” – Ben Carson
“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” – Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
“The best thing to spend on your children is your time.” – Louise Hart
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.” – Jane D. Hull
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided.” – Robert Brault
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” – Oscar Wilde
“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
“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” – Josh Billings
“There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” – Anne Lamott
“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.” – Marisa de los Santos
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” – James E. Faust
“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” – Frank A. Clark
“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” – Harold Hulbert
“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.” – Joyce Maynard
“Parents must lead by example. Don’t use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children’s first and most important role models.” – Lee Haney
“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” – Billy Graham
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
“When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.” – The Talmud
“The only thing better than having you for parents is my children having you for grandparents.” – Unknown
“Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.” – Marcelene Cox
“The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.” – Ewan McGregor
“In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.” – Robert Brault
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver
“A father’s goodness is higher than the mountain, a mother’s goodness deeper than the sea.” – Japanese Proverb
“Being a parent means loving your children more than you’ve ever loved yourself.” – Unknown
“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.” – Robert Orben
“By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.” – Eileen Kennedy-Moore
“Parenting without a sense of humor is like being an accountant who sucks at math.” – Amber Dusick
“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren
“I don’t believe in love at first sight because my mother started loving me before seeing me.” – Unknown
“A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.” – Francois Rabelais
“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.” – Peter Ustinov
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.” – Plato
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” – Sophocles
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning
“Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.” – John Mayor
“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.” – Prevost Abbe
“One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.” – Chinese Proverb
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.” – Billy Graham
“It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.” – Roald Dahl
“When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows.” – Amy Poehler
“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” – Billy Graham
“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.” – John Wilmot
“Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair
“You see much more of your children once they leave home.” – Lucille Ball
“Parents: They didn’t leave you when you were young, so don’t leave them when they are old.” – Unknown
“Children spell love T-I-M-E.” – John Crudele
“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” – Steve Martin
“The greatest gift I ever had, Came from God; I call him Dad!” – Unknown
“Love is staying up all night with a sick child—or a healthy adult.” – David Frost
“It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers
“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, as our children do the same.” – Robyn Passante
“There’s no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.” – Sarah Michelle Gellar
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” – Orlando Aloysius Battista
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” – Ricki Lake
“A man’s worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own.” – Lisa Rogers
“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” – Mitch Albom
“A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.” – Unknown
“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown
“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.” – Marisa de los Santos
“Being a parent isn’t just about bearing a child. It’s about bearing witness to its life.” – Jodi Picoult
“The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.” – Dan Pearce
“The days are long, but the years are short.” – Gretchen Rubin
“Children are miracles. Believing that every child is a miracle can transform the way we design for children’s care.” – Anita Rui Olds
“I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.” – Maya Angelou
“The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself.” – James E. Faust
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” – Mildred B. Vermont
“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.” – J.K. Rowling
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.” – John Locke
“In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.” – Unknown
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones
“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.” – Bette Davis
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Eden Ahbez
“One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.” – Jane Goodall
“Children are like wet cement: whatever falls on them makes an impression.” – Haim Ginott
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Jewish Proverb
“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” – Kate Winslet
“To raise a child who is comfortable enough to leave you means you’ve done your job. They are not ours to keep, but to teach how to soar on their own.” – Unknown
“Parenting is about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.” – Peter Krause
“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
“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” – Frank A. Clark