100+ Parenting Quotes About the Rewards of Bringing up a Child

Yes, you have been blessed! Looking at that beautiful face every day and your heart fills with love and joy is what makes parenting worth it. Sure, it may be tough at times and there are days of complete madness, but nothing beats that unconditional love. It is the most important job of your life as you are in the process of supporting and shaping the emotional, physical and intellectual development of your offspring.
If you find parenting rewarding, you’ll be glad to find out that a great number of famous people agree! Continue reading to find a great collection of quotes by a variety of celebrities, authors and actors all inspirational and motivating so you never forget how amazing parenting is. It’s your child’s hug and smile that remind you of that every day.

Table of Contents

1. Positive Parenting Quotes
2. Motivational Quotes for Parents
3. Parenting is Hard Quotes
4. Inspirational Parenting Quotes

Positive Parenting Quotes

• Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll
• Parenting is the most important profession in the world. John Wooden
• The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. O. A. Battista
• If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton
• Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving. Fiona Dimas-Herd
• My kid, her life. I want for her what she wants for herself. Laura Castoro
• Parenting is a life time job and does not stop when a child grows up. Jake Slope
• Kids. They’re not tin cans or sheetrock. They’re laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go. Carew Papritz

• Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. Frank Pittman
• At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents. Jane D. Hull
• It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness than by fear. Terence
• Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting; Focus on the uniqueness of every Child. Jaachynma N.E. Agu
• Parenting cannot just be one size fits all. Amy Chua
• You can’t teach children to behave better by making them feel worse. When children feel better they behave better. Pam Lee
• Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don’t think you are looking! Kevin Heath
• My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. Gena Lee Nolin
• Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children. Elizabeth George
• Encourage obeying all the way, right away, and in a happy way. Kara Durbin
• You can’t judge your parenting by the choices of your kids. Todd Stocker
• Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit. Ellen Hopkins
• If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown, give him support. Osho
• In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas. Gerhard E Frost

• My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own. Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up. Rachael Bermingham
• Parenting isn’t a noun but a verb–an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat. Jodi Picoult
• We can easily teach our kids hot to be kind, compassionate and respectful when we are kind, compassionate and respectful to them. Roma Khetarpal

Motivational Quotes for Parents

• A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent. Gary Edward Gedall
• Expect progress, not perfection. John F. MacArthur Jr.
• Children need love most when they don’t deserve it. Ikechukwu Joseph
• Even though you can’t control outcomes for your child, you can parent unconditionally with all your heart. Lisa Coyne
• Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be. David Bly
• Children desperately need to know – and to hear in ways they understand and remember – that they’re loved and valued by mom and dad. Paul Small
• Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don’t spank your child show them some attention. Alcurtis Turner
• Treat sins that your children struggle with like basic math. Practice, Practice, and you’ll get it. Rachel Jankovic
• Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society. Mick Karabegovic
• If we are wonderful parents and family members, then there’s really nothing else to prove. Ron Baratono
• You must be committed to your children first. Otherwise, they will receive the leftovers. Lorilyn Roberts
• Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something. Robert Breault
• 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
• You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don’t have the right to abandon him just because he’s inconvenient or has trouble in school. Michael Crichton
• Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things. Carew Papritz
• Sometimes our work as caregivers is not for the faint of heart. But, you will never know what you are made of until you step into the fire. Step bravely! Deborah A. Beasley
• If you feel judged by others, remember that they don’t live in your house at night, and they don’t care for your child. You do, and you are capable of doing the right thing for your child. Alice Callahan
• Train your Children with Patience, Correct them in Love, Don’t Discipline them out of hatred. Jaachynma N.E. Agu
• The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you. John Eldredge
• Kids never want a perfect mother; they need a little love, even if that comes from a worst mother. M.F. Moonzajer
• Mostly good is enough. Mostly good produces healthy kids who know they are valued and either forget the other parts or turn them into funny stories. Jen Hatmaker
• The love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy. Louisa May Alcott

Parenting is Hard Quotes

• Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth. Jennifer Aniston
• Parenting is a stage of life’s journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. Robert Breault
• 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
• That’s a parents’ job, isn’t it? To raise a child strong enough to leave and break our hearts? Beth Groundwater
• Parenting is an impossible job at any age. Harrison Ford
• It’s not difficult to take care of a child; it’s difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child. Julianne Moore
• The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult. Ewan McGregor
• That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience; being ignored by rebellious child. Dennis Garvin
• For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friends and acting like an immature dipshit. Drew Magary
• Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own. Willie Robertson
• The longer I travel this parenting journey, the more it feels as if the road I’m on has taken me in a much different direction than I expected. Debra Evans
• He’d learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear–even one the size of a golf club–was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed. Kristin Hannah
• No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. Marcelene Cox
• I don’t have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it’s really hard. It’s a dangerous world, physically and psychologically. Anne Lamott
• I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier. Joe Hill
• Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying? Lisa Kleypas
• The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror. Brene Brown
• The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad–aka the Fun-Sucker–as opposed to being a friend. James Patterson
• There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won’t stop crying: it is a big baby who won’t stop whining about it. Agona Apell
• You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others… It’s a good metaphor for parenting Amanda Peet
• No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right. Alan Arkin
• Sometimes to be a good parent… You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough. Daniel Pearce
• Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting. Chris Cleave
• Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose. Mayim Bialik
• We’re always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we’re just praying we won’t screw up too badly. Jodi Picoult
• Raising people is not some lark. It’s serious work with serious repercussions. It’s air-traffic control. You can’t step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle. Kelly Corrigan
• It’s difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what’s good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That’s the hardest. Anthony Edwards
• It’s bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody’s miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity. Laurie Halse Anderson
• You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough. Lisa Gardner

Inspirational Parenting Quotes

• Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go. Fred Rogers
• We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• When your spouse is talking; turn off the television. When your child is talking turn off the world. Crystal DeLarm Clymer
• Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making. Dan Pearce
• We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view. Katrina Kenison
• Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason. Alfie Kohn
• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. Hodding Carter
• What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand. Larry R. Lawrence
• When the gardeners are good, the flower will bloom. Amish Tripathi

• While the days of parenting may seem so long, the years are so short. Daniel J. Siegel
• Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. Robert Brault
• There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. Marianne Williamson
• One curious thing about growing up is that you don’t only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents’ and grandparents’ lives come to you. Philip Pullman
• Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness. William E. Blatz
• Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new. Mariska Hargitay
• With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before. Jhumpa Lahiri
• Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. Gloria Steinem
• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. Laura Schlessinger
• Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential. Gordon Neufeld
• One hundred years from now it won’t matter what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove, but the world may be different because you were important in the life of a child. Forest E. Witcraft
• There’s a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It’s not something you can give; it’s something they have to build. Randy Pausch
• Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin
• You learn so much about yourself from being a parent and you care more about the world you are raising your kids in. Kim Kardashian
• You step over the threshold of your parents’ home, and you’re instantly transported back to your childhood. It’s like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development. Tamsin Greig
• If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive at this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. Thich Nhat Hanh

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