Gentle Discipline
My favourite motherhood & parenting quotes
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege,
than the raising of the next generation.
- C. Everet Koop, M.D.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The formative period for building character for eternity
is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm
and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests.
- Author Unknown
Children are the sum of what mothers contribute to their lives.
- Unknown
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, where mother is.
- Keith L. Brooks
Mother - that was the bank where we
deposited all our hurts and worries.
deposited all our hurts and worries.
- T. DeWitt Talmage
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
- Moorish Proverb
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.
and once for her child.
- Sophia Loren
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things
and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
- Agatha Christie
To describe my mother
would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
- Maya Angelou
The commonest fallacy among women is that
simply having children makes one a mother—
which is as absurd as believing that having a piano
makes one a musician.
makes one a musician.
- Sydney J. Harris
One woman will brag about her children,
while another complains about hers;
they could probably swap children without swapping tunes.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
- Harold Hulbert
Parenting is not something perfect people do,
but something that perfects the person.
- Frank Pittman (edited)
There will always be a struggle between a parent and child
when one aims at power and the other at independence.
- Ibid (edited)
The most important thing a father can do for his children
is to love their mother.
is to love their mother.
- Theodore Hesburgh
A person soon learns how little he knows
when a child begins to ask questions.
when a child begins to ask questions.
- Richard L. Evans
Taking time and sharing is the essence of teaching.
- Author Unknown
Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.
- Arnold Glasow
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks
of our children.
of our children.
- Charles R. Swindoll
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.
One is roots. The other is wings.
- Hodding Carter, Jr.
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
As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives,
they are watching us to see what we do with ours.
I can't tell my children to reach for the sun.
All I can do is reach for it, myself.
All I can do is reach for it, myself.
- Joyce Maynard
If I had my child to raise all over again,
I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I'd do more hugging and less tugging.
- Diane Loomans
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if
children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation,
if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.
- Alice Miller
We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered,
if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.
- Jean Liedloff
This generation of mothers labors under dubious pronouncement that
babies sleep best in isolation. Every infant knows better.
His protest at nocturnal solitude contains the wisdom of millennia.
- Thomas Lewis, M.D.
Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time
as adults in meaningful and creative ways,
rather than expressing their childhood hurts.
- Quote by Jan Hunt
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy,
and unrestrained by parental tyranny.
- Abraham Lincoln
*Feel free to add any great quotes you love.
*Feel free to add any great quotes you love.
5 comments
I so loved reading these. Some I've heard, others were new to me. I'd like to put these quotes onto little canvases around my home, so beautiful and inspiring. Thank you x
ReplyDeleteThanks Sarah, that's a fantastic idea! I used to have a sheet of my favourite quotes I'd read whenever the day got tough, it was so helpful, but it got pretty tatty by the end of it! I also thought it'd be great to get a little book of quotes bound.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you enjoyed them :)
Very beautifull and correct words. I love it!
ReplyDeleteGlad you appreciated them!
ReplyDeletenice collection of parenting quotes =)
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