“There is no such thing as a perfect parent, so just be a real one.” – Sue Atkins
“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson
“Parenting is the greatest act of love and selflessness.” – Unknown
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” – W.E.B. Du Bois
“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” – Peggy O’Mara
“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.” – Jane D. Hull
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” – Angela Schwindt
“Your children will become who you are, so be who you want them to be.” – David Bly
“A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided.” – Robert Brault
“Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair
“Parenting is a lifetime job and does not stop when a child grows up.” – Jake Slope
“Behind every young child who believes in themselves is a parent who believed first.” – Matthew Jacobson
“Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do.” – Matt Walsh
“Parenthood: The state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.” – Marcelene Cox
“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino
“Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.” – Ed Asner
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Parenting is not about being perfect. It’s about being real.” – Unknown
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
“A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you will go mad.” – John Andrew Holmes
“In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.” – Lisa T. Shepherd
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
“Parenting is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you’d have.” – Joan Ryan
“A good parent is not the one who does everything for their child but the one who teaches their child to do things for themselves.” – Unknown
“To be a parent is to be chief designer of a masterpiece that will outlast you.” – Unknown
“Children spell love T-I-M-E.” – Dr. A. Witham
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
“The best inheritance a parent can give their children is a few minutes of their time each day.” – Orlando Aloysius Battista
“Being a parent means loving your children more than you’ve ever loved yourself.” – Unknown
“The sign of great parenting is not the child’s behavior. The sign of truly great parenting is the parent’s behavior.” – Andy Smithson
“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
“Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.” – Bruno Bettelheim
“Parenting is about guiding your children on the path, not carving it for them.” – Unknown
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” – Sophocles
“A father’s goodness is higher than the mountain, a mother’s goodness deeper than the sea.” – Japanese Proverb
“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.” – Brad Meltzer
“Encourage and support your kids because children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
“Love your children unconditionally. Your actions and love shape their world.” – Unknown
“Parenting is planting seeds of love, hope, and courage in the hearts of our children.” – Unknown
“Parenting is the toughest job in the world, but the one with the greatest rewards.” – Unknown
“Children are great imitators, so give them something great to imitate.” – Unknown
“The greatest gift you can give your child is your time.” – Unknown
“A parent’s job is to teach children how to navigate the world, not to shield them from it.” – Unknown
“The best teachers of humanity are the children themselves.” – Unknown
“Parenting is a partnership where both parent and child teach each other lessons they wouldn’t learn alone.” – Unknown
“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
“As your kids grow up, they may forget what you said, but they won’t forget how you made them feel.” – Kevin Heath
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” – Elaine Heffner
“Being a parent means that you’ll never again be your first priority.” – Olivia Wilde