Better Parent Quotes

#1. Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think that's necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of that parental power.

Jessica Valenti

#2. There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.

Clive Owen

#3. Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.

Poppy Montgomery

#4. Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

Molly Ringwald

#5. You don't become a better parent or employee by not enjoying your life.

Laura Vanderkam

#6. My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

Monica Denise Brown

#7. My kids are so much better parent than I was.

Dick Van Dyke

#8. Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me.

Gary Myers

#9. To become a better parent, you must become a better person.

Leonard Sax

#10. Quit trying to become a better parent and decided to try becoming a better person.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#11. I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?

Jennifer Lopez

#12. I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Robert Benton

#13. You can make changes in your life and you can say, "I'm going to be a better parent next year than I am right now," or, "I'm going to take an extra step in my career and not just be satisfied where I am." So it has a lot to do with our will, but also we have to work as well.

Joel Osteen

#14. I was raised in a beautiful Black two-parent family that has given me amazing morals to go out to make a better life for myself and others. That is who I truly am. And this show allows me to display the true essence of who I am and why I'm in this business.

Eva Marcille

#15. The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

Maya Rudolph

#16. Half an hour of exercise in the morning makes for better interactions all day. Then a sound night of sleep gives me energy to tackle the next day. I am a more active parent, a better spouse, and more engaged in my work when I eat, move, and sleep well.

Tom Rath

#17. Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

Don Kardong

#18. Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

Moby

#19. As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

Alan King

#20. When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

Celine Dion

#21. There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it.

John Lennon

#22. There's nothing better in life than being a parent, there's nothing more beautiful in life than women, there's nothing more precious in life than time, and there's nothing in life more magical than life itself.

Ben Tolosa

#23. There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

Marlee Matlin

#24. We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.

Ethan Nadelmann

#25. If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.

Vincent Cassel

#26. There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watchful, and takes a longer time to separate from his parents and join the group. Neither one nor the other is smarter, better adjusted, or destined for a better life.

Ellen Galinsky

#27. My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carol Moseley Braun

#28. Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.

Peter Lynch

#29. If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care.

Max Heindel

#30. Sometimes parents don't know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and

Henning Mankell

#31. Thank you," Emerson said, bowing his head and accepting the box with the tender hands of a parent holding a child. "I am indebted-"
"Don't be.This doesn't mean I like you or your politics any better," Heath said gruffly.

Lisa Kleypas

#32. If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate ... Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

#33. What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

Richard L. Evans

#34. We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

George H. W. Bush

#35. I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.

Brigham Young

#36. Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than for himto feel you withdraw emotionally ... Active and emotional involvement between parent and child helps the child make the limits a part of himself.

Stanley Greenspan

#37. If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

Francis Quarles

#38. I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

Daniel Radcliffe

#39. Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

Warren Farrell

#40. Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

Immanuel Kant

#41. I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.

John F. Kerry

#42. Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

Perry Brass

#43. Being a good parent is not an obligation, it is a choice. Plenty of people fall short in the parent category and quite a few refuse to accept it. You will do a much better job if you understand that taking care of your children is a choice not an obligation.

Gudjon Bergmann

#44. Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

Shirley Henderson

#45. No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Billy Graham

#46. If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what they want to do. When you are raised by two parents, you are constantly watching compromise take place. Just by observing that, it made me a better person.

Chris Rock

#47. Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

Todd Tiahrt

#48. As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Eric Alterman

#49. The birth certificate of the royal baby lists her parents' occupations as being 'the prince and princess of the United Kingdom.' It says that under occupation, which I guess sounds better than 'unemployed.'

Conan O'Brien

#50. Don't you see?" she says. "I want your life to be better than mine. That's all any parent wants.

Katie Crouch

#51. Well, the hardest thing about being a parent is recalibration. The better you are at it, the better you will be." At

Hanya Yanagihara

#52. We are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

May Sarton

#53. My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.

Jill Sobule

#54. Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.

Bob Proctor

#55. With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

Andrew Solomon

#56. There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Jim Gaffigan

#57. Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Nina Bawden

#58. This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.

Groucho Marx

#59. Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#60. Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it!

Kathleen Silber

#61. As any parent can tell you, it's better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They're probably doing something they don't want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they'll hide the evidence. I

Elizabeth Bear

#62. Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if you know yourself - especially in art, because whenever you do something new, everyone will be against you.

Yoshitaka Amano

#63. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.

Tina Fey

#64. As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.

Leigh Anne Tuohy

#65. It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

Thomas Jefferson

#66. A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

Jessica Alba

#67. The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

Dustin Hoffman

#68. Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

A. E. Hotchner

#69. Each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Lucy Freeman

#70. We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

Jose Serrano

#71. Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents' plan to make college affordable: 'Be good at sports.'

Jimmy Fallon

#72. Children are better off having a parent who works into the night in a job they love than a parent who works shorter hours but comes home unhappy.

Simon Sinek

#73. Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.

Sophie Kinsella

#74. The more valuable you become [in your company], the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend.

Jim Rohn

#75. Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#76. I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

Mitt Romney

#77. My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never occurred to them to tell me that I could just rest comfortably and wait for good old Uncle Sugar to feed me, lead me and then bleed me.

Mike Huckabee

#78. Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty?

Juan Williams

#79. We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer.

Mike Bickle

#80. Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Amy Chua

#81. But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

Arne Jacobsen

#82. I can never understand why people seem to think that growing up with unhappy parents is better than growing up with a happy single parent.

Sarah Morgan

#83. Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children's hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking any human being in anger. Does this absence of physical violence make you a better man than you might otherwise have been?

Sherman Alexie

#84. I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Phil McGraw

#85. I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.

C. Everett Koop