Inspirational parenting quotes can be great. Little words of wisdom can impact and guide your life. And, sometimes, you just need to remember that you are doing great things. Just be the parent today that you want your kids to remember tomorrow. Your imperfections can be perfect!
Here are some of my favorite quotes that inspire my parenting style and philosophy.
« Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. » – Mother Teresa
« If you get tired learn to rest, not to quit. » – Banksy
« Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first. » – Gwyneth Paltrow
« Don’t ruin a good today because of a bad yesterday. » – Russell Simmons
« It always seems impossible until it’s done. » – Nelson Mandela
« Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. » – Marcel Proust
« We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves. » – Henry Ward Beecher
« They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they’re crying they need to do one of the three, and they’re having trouble doing it. Real simple. » – Matthew McConaughey
« Tired minds don’t plan well. Sleep first, plan later. » – Walter Reisch
« Sleep is the best meditation. » – Dalai Lama
« Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. » – Thomas Bray
« The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. » – Marilyn Monroe
« To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. » – Josh Billings
« Without enough sleep we all become tall two-year-olds. » – JoJo Jensen
« A man is great not because he hasn’t failed; a man is great because failure hasn’t stopped him. » – Confucius
« The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. » – Joe Houldsworth
« A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. » – Eda LeShan
« Put yourself at the top of your to-do list every single day and the rest will fall into place. » – Unknown
« As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about. » – Jason Isbell
« At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents. » – Jane D. Hull
« A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. » – Victor Hugo
« If your baby is ‘ beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time ‘, you’re the grandma. » – Teresa Bloomingdale
« A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. » – Mark Twain
« When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. » – Sophia Loren
« Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. » – Roald Dahl
« No one likes change… but babies in diapers. » – Barbara Johnson
« Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. » – Oscar Wilde
« People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. » – Leo J. Burke
« Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up. » – Ray Romano
« Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. » – Carl Jung
« There is no knowledge obtained without risk. » – Stephen King
« They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. » – Edgar Allan Poe
« Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. » – Charles Dickens
« It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. » – Gabriel García Márquez
« Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side every night. Because one day you won’t be able to, and it’s going to happen really fast. » – Salma Hayek
« Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. » – Robert Fulghum
« Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. » – Thomas Dekker
« The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. » – Benjamin Spock
« Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. » – Confucius
« Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. » – Maria Montessori
« What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. » – Timothy Ferris
« A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it. » – Jerry Seinfeld
« We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future. » – Franklin D. Roosevelt
« You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. » – Franklin P. Adams
« Once you become a parent, you stop being the picture and start being the frame. » – Unknown
« Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. » – Garrison Keillor
« You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness! » – Jackie Kennedy
« Invest in sleep. » – Priscilla Domicent
« If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.» – Dalai Lama
« There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.» – Jill Churchill
« Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind. » – Plato
« What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give. » – Phyllis D. James
« If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. » – Abigail Van Buren
« A parent’s love is whole, no matter how many times divided. » – Robert Breault
« Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. » – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
« It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. » – Joyce Maynard
« Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. » – Benjamin Spock
« Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it. » – Walter Mischel
« A baby makes love stronger, the days shorter, the nights longer, savings smaller, and a home happier. » – Unknown
« Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream. » – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
« There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity. » – Marc Levy
« Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition. » – Wystan H. Auden
« We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. » – Aristotle
« There is beauty in everything, but not everyone sees it. » – Andy Warhol
« Drinking coffee prevents sleep and sleeping prevents you from drinking coffee. » – Philippe Geluck
« Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. » – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
« Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. » – Benjamin Franklin
« Don’t forget to love yourself. » – Soren Kierkegaard
« One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. » – Franz Kafka
« Patience is the companion of wisdom. » – Saint Augustine
« A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. » – Frank A. Clark
« The cell phone has become the adult’s transitional object, replacing the toddler’s teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging. » – Margaret Heffernan
« Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye. It is very beautiful. » – Kailash Satyarthi
« Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world. » – Maria Montessori
« The most precious jewels you’ll ever wear around your neck are the arms of your children. » – Unknown
« Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. » – Paulo Coelho
« A lot of things you see as a child remain with you… you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience. » – Tim Burton
« I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. » – Vincent van Gogh
« Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. – Jackson Brown, Jr.
« It’s all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult. » – Selena Gomez
« Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. » – Harriet Tubman
« When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. » – Henry Ford
« Sleep, baby, sleep. Our promises we’ll keep. Be the miracle you are, a wish come true on a shooting star. Sleep, baby, sleep.» – Maryann Cusimano
« Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. » – Winnie the Pooh
« Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. » – Thomas Jefferson
« Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. » – Mahatma Gandhi
« It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart. » – Oscar Wilde
« Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. » – Confucius
« The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. » – Mike Murdock
« You can’t get satisfaction without action. » – Priscilla Domicent
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