Wise Parents Quotes:

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

- Ann Landers

topic: Inspirational, Children, Wise Parents, Raising Kids, Pampered

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Love, Daughter, Children, Good Parent, Love And Family

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

topic: Love, Wise, Independent, Wise Parents, Advisors

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

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Children, Parenting, Important, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

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

topic: Funny, Leadership, Witty, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

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

- David Bly

topic: Children, Parenting, Want, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Clarence Budington Kelland

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Loss, Sons Love, Father Died

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Inspirational, Life, Relationship, Inspirational Parenting, Lack Of Integrity

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

topic: Inspirational, Growing Up, Women, Good Character, Many Paths

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

- Denis Waitley

topic: Retirement, Children, Responsibility, Happy Children, Indian Independence Day

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Birthday, Family, Christmas, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Marriage, Mother, Children, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

- C. Everett Koop

topic: Responsibility, Parenting, Generations, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Strength, Educational, Teaching, Individual Differences, Inspirational Diversity

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

- Haim Ginott

topic: Children, Nice, Self Esteem, Spoiled Children, Overhearing

If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

- Diana Loomans

topic: Running, Stars, Children, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

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

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Family, Abby, Happy Children

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Life, Education, Children, Large Family, Wise Parents

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Family, Good Night, Baby, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

- Josh Billings

topic: Family, Dad, Children, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Children, Needs, Way, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

Think long and hard about the way you invest your children's time. Time is treasure. And where your time investment is, there you will find the heart of a child. Invest the majority of his time in entertainment, and his heart will be turned to love of pleasure. Invest his time in peers rather then family, and his heart will be with the peers more than his family. There is a time and place for all good things in balance, but wise parents will steward the treasure of time, and in so doing, shepherd their children's hearts.

- Doug Phillips

topic: Wise, Children, Heart, Wise Parents

Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.

- Leonard Roy Frank

topic: Wise, Parent, Criticism, Wise Parents

Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

- Haim Ginott

topic: Wise, Teenager, Fighting, Wise Parents, Riptide

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

- E. M. Delafield

source: E. M. Delafield (2015). “The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)”, p.2296, e-artnow

topic: Wise, Children, Book, Wise Parents

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

- Keira Knightley

topic: Wise, Parent, Today, Wise Parents