Parenting is one of the most rewarding and challenging responsibilities. It’s a long journey that requires courage, determination, and patience. Parenting quotes often serve as a guide for new parents to raise their children to be empathetic and sensible individuals. They also give you insight into what it means to be a parent and how your actions can affect your child. In this post, we have combined several quotes on parenting that will inspire you to be a great parent.

These quotes will reassure you that you are on the right path.

1. “Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, every movement, and action affects. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than a parent.” – Bob Keeshan

3. “One of the greatest titles in the world is a parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.” – Jim DeMint

4. “Parenting is the biggest sacrifice one can make. It’s putting your life on hold to fulfill the promise of your children’s tomorrow.”

5. “There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.” -Hodding Carter

6. “Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.”- Alvin Price

7. “To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.”- James E. Faust

8. “There’s nothing called a perfect parent, so just be a real one.”- Sue Atkins

9. “The children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.” – Whitney Houston

10. “A father’s goodness is higher than the mountain, a mother’s goodness deeper than the sea.”- Japanese proverb

12. “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

13. “Your children need your presence more than your presents.”- Jesse Jackson

14. “Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth.”- Virginia Satir

15. “If you have never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” – Bette Davis

16. “Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” – Harold Hubert

17. “We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.”

18. “Be the parent today that you want your kids to remember tomorrow.”

19. “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach them.”- WEB DuBois

20. “The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.” —Ewan McGregor

22. “When you look at your life, the greatest happiness is family happiness.”- Joyce Brothers

23. “Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”- Abraham Lincoln

24. “Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly.”- W Cecil

25. “If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent, and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”- Brian Tracy

Quotes on Parenting Love and Care

A parent’s love comes in its purest form. It is everlasting and unconditional. Here are some quotes on a parents love and care.

26. “Parental love is the only love that is truly selfless, unconditional and forgiving.” – Dr. TP Chia

27. “A parent’s love is made of deep devotion, sacrifice, and pain; It is endless and unselfish, and enduring come what may.”

28. “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. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.” – James E. Faust

29. “Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”- Ann Brashares

30. “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”- Mitch Albom

32. “A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided.”- Robert Brault

33. “Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time.”- Kevin Heath

34. “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

35. “There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”-Henry Ward Beecher

36. “A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.”-Helen Rice

37. “A mother is a person who is seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”-Tenneva Jordan

38. “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”- Honore de Balzac

39. “The most beautiful thing in the world is to see your children smiling and knowing that you’re the reason behind their smile.”

40. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired; it need not be deserved.”-Erich Fromm

42. “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

43. “There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.”-Anne Lamott

44. ”Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep.”-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

45. “You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.” -Barbara Bush

46. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” -Jewish proverb

47. “Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you’re telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.”-Bill Cosby

48. “Parents hold their children’s hands for just a little while, but their hearts forever.”

49. “First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

51. “Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be when you grow up.” ― Jodie Picoult

52. “A good father is a source of inspiration and self-restraint. A good mother is the root of kindness and humbleness.” – Dr. TP Chia

53. “Parents are the greatest gifts for children to help them find their talents.”

54. “Our parent’s prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations.”– Aditia Rinaldi

55. “In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.”– Robert Brault

Funny Parenting Quotes

Sometimes, the frustrations of parenting can actually make you funny. Here are some funny parenting quotes:

56. “That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.” ― Ivan Turgenev

57. “My biggest parenting conundrum: why is it so hard to put someone who is already sleepy to sleep.” – Chrissy Teigen

58. “Parents had some kind of sin radar. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they’d consider wrong. Or at least risky.”― Rachel Caine

59. “Having children is like living in a frat house- nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.”- Ray Romano

61. “I thought I’d never be the annoying person, but as soon as Winnie was born, I was showing iPhone snaps to a cab driver.” – Jimmy Fallon

62. “A 2-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”- Jerry Seinfeld

63. “My kid is turning out just like me. Well played, karma. Well played.”

64. “Nobody is hungrier than the kid who has been told it’s time for bed.”

65. “90% of parenting is about when you can lie down again.”

66. “I love when my kids tell me they’re bored. As if the lady standing in front of a full sink of dirty dishes is where you go to get ideas about how to have a good time.”

67. “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.”- Phyllis Diller

68. “Not all who wander are lost. Some are just moms in target, hiding from their kids.”

69. “The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.”- Lane Olinghouse

70. “The easiest way to shop with kids is not to.”

71. “The perfect time for kids to ask questions, need to go to the bathroom, request more food is bedtime.”

72. “The only thing kids wear out faster than their shoes is their parents.”

74. “I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.”

75. “Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee.”

76. “People who say they sleep like babies usually don’t have them.”

77. “Toddlers should come with their own clean-up crew.”

Positive Parenting Quotes

Positive parenting will help raise your child as a responsible and loving individual. It will also help them develop a positive outlook on life and live their best life.

78. I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to. -Magda Gerber

79. 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. -Joyce Maynard

80. I’m always amazed when adults say that children “just did that to get attention”. Naturally, children who need attention will do all kinds of things to get it. Why not just give it to them? -Lawrence J Cohen

81. Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. -Thomas Bray

82. If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. -Ignacio Estrada

83. The point of parenting isn’t to have all the answers before we start out but instead to figure it out on the go as our children grow, because as they do, so will we. -Bridgett Miller

84. If your children fear you, they cannot trust you. If they don’t trust you, they cannot learn from you. -Lori Petro

85. A child seldom needs a good talking to as much as a good listening to. -Robert Brault

86. Feeling heard and understood allows children to release their feelings, let go and move on. -Janet Lansbury

87. Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first. -Mathew L Jacobson

88. 112. If your children fear you, they cannot trust you. If they don’t trust you, they cannot learn from you. -Lori Petro

89. Children do well if they can, if they can’t we need to figure out why so we can help. -Ross Greene

90. You must first teach a child he is loved. Only then is he ready to learn everything else. -Amanda Morgan

91. Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them, all of it has always been big stuff. -Catherine M Wallace

92. Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously. -Alfie Kohn

93. There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you’d be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. -Ayelet Waldman

94. Gentle parenting doesn’t involve instantaneous results but naturally achieved, life-long lasting results. -Kirsty Lee

95. You can’t teach children to behave better by making them feel worse. When children feel better, they behave better. -Pam Leo

96. It’s time we stop buying the lie that we need to be hard on kids because “the world is hard”. Love them as hard as you can. That’s what they need. -Tara Vogler

97. My message is very simple. Love your kids. Just love them. Love, appreciate, show that you value them, remind them of their greatness, encourage them, respect, honor, trust, and treat them with dignity. -Eric D Greene

Parent-Child Relationship Quotes

There is no relationship on earth as safe, selfless, and limitless as a parent-child’s. These quotes celebrate the same:

98. “Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”- Plato

99. “Children learn to smile from their parents.”- Shinichi Suzuki

100. “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”- Elizabeth Stone

101. “The parenting journey holds the potential to be a spiritually regenerative experience for both the parent and the child, where every moment is a meeting of spirits. And both parent and child appreciate that each dances on a spiritual path that’s unique, holding hands and yet alone”. – Dr. Shefali Tsabary

103. “I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.” – Jim Carrey

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

105. “He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”-Bible

106. “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”-Charles R. Swindoll

107. “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.”

108. “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

109. “It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness than by fear.”-Terence

110. “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

112. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother.”- Abraham Lincoln

113. “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”- Theodore Hesburgh

114. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum

115. “Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, some quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.”- Sandra Scarr

116.  “Romance fails us, and so do friendships, but the relationship of a parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.”- Theodor Reik

117. “”As a single mom, I’m juggling a lot and working long hours. Yes, it costs them a little, but what my children get in return is a mother who is energized and content.” — Edie Falco

118. “The best way to advise your children is to find out what they want and then advice them to do it.”- Harry S. Truman

119. “Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they’ve learned.”- Dorothy Nolte

120. “The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.”- Drew Barrymore

121. “There’s always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn’t matter how much more independent, how much older or more mature you get – there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to transform successfully.” – Helene Grimaud

The bond between parents and children is one of unconditional love. Parents are the first teachers and role models for their children. However, this great relationship needs to be nurtured like a plant in a garden to make it grow into a strong and beautiful tree. While parents do their best to bring up their children, their roles need to be expressed and appreciated on different occasions or every day through words. These heartfelt parenting quotes are sure to describe their journey and make all their efforts special.