Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

- Jess Lair

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

- Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.

- Sue Atkins

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jesse Jackson

Parenting is a lifetime job and does not stop when a child grows up.

- Jake Slope

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

- Frederick Douglass

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

- Charles R. Swindoll

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

- Peggy O’Mara

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.

- Barbara Johnson

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

Behind every young child who believes in themselves is a parent who believed first.

- Matthew Jacobson

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

- Lady Bird Johnson

There is no such thing as bad children, only bad parents.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Parenthood: The state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.

- Marcelene Cox

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

- Robert Fulghum

The greatest gift you can give your children is your time.

- Rick Warren

A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided.

- Robert Brault

To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself.

- Chinese Proverb

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.

- Jane D. Hull

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

- Carl Jung

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

- Abigail Van Buren

The sign of great parenting is not the child’s behavior. The sign of truly great parenting is the parent’s behavior.

- Andy Smithson

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

- Ed Asner

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be when you grow up.

- Jodie Picoult