Parenting Quotes
~ Happy Nurturing ~

Parenting requires love, patience, understanding and skills.

So here are some parenting quotes that may inspire you in the way you nurture your children.

One need not be a parent to know how tough it is to bring up a child. It’s not just the material things, but the values, attitude and education that we pass on that matters.

Your guidance and care may affect your children’s behaviour and future. So I guess parenting is more or less of ‘what you give is what you get’.

Besides parenting quotes, I also prepare some anger quotes. (You’d know why :p) Happy parenting to you!

- PARENTING QUOTES I -

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Kim Rohn

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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
George F. Will

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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Abdul Kalam

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Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
Jodie Foster

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Raising a kid is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
Ed Asner

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If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette Davis

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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
Unknown

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet; there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox

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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

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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.
Arnold Bennett

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To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Marilyn French

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There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Green

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The rules for parents are but three... love, limit, and let them be.
Elaine M. Ward

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson

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Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
Richard L. Evans



- Parenting quotes II -

Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert

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It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Terence

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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott

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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
Earvin Johnson

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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

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Children learn to smile from their parents.
Shinichi Suzuki

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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Anne Sullivan

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By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.
Wayne Dyer



- PARENTING QUOTES III -

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Lazarus Long

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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard

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

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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Dr. Jess Lair

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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock

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It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.
Simone De Beauvoir

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Our children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Wayne Dyer

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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley

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Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.
David Bly

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We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Brigham Young

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Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.
Dr. Henker

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Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
Bob Talbert



- ANGER QUOTES -

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Ford Frick

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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin

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Anger is only one letter short of danger.
Unknown

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Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
Thomas Jefferson

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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mohandas Gandhi

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Anger is like milk, it should not be kept too long.
Phyllis Bottome

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Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Martha Beck

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