Parenting Discipline Quotes

#1. The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

John Rosemond

#2. Just like the moon is fully illuminated when facing the sun, so are believers who fully turn themselves to face the Prophet.

Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

#3. God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

Mario Puzo

#4. All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.

Allan Massie

#5. I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

Hugh Leonard

#6. You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#7. I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.

John Harwood

#8. Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]

Terry Pratchett

#9. The more power you give your child in any discipline process, the more likely he will be to be able to make it work positively for himself.

Hilary Flower

#10. Mothers and fathers must be gentle at least some of the time. Mothers and fathers must also be strict at least some of the time. Most of the time, though, most mothers and fathers must be mostly strict and gentle together.

Connie Kerbs

#11. I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too
enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

Diana Gabaldon

#13. You cannot stop loving your child because you know that he has committed a wrong action. But you certainly stop loving yourself for loving him.

~ Rudransh Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#14. Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#15. Don't let truth and grace forsake one another. If you raise your child with only truth (or your laws), they will never live up to your rules or expectations. No one can fulfill all of the law. On the other hand , if you only give grace to your children, they will run wild without restraint.

Neil Kennedy

#16. Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

Gordon Neufeld

#17. I'll return your love, " she says."And I won't look at you differently. And I'll always be there to put something under your head so you don't hurt yourself.

Garth Stein

#18. Oh Man! Maternal love is a bitch. It takes a woman in its grip at the most unexpected moments.

~ Ananya Mehta

Kirtida Gautam

#19. Never discipline whom you've not discipled.

Neil Kennedy

#20. When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.
When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.
When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.
When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

Haim G. Ginott

#21. Is it usual, what it is between us when I touch you?

Diana Gabaldon

#22. To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

Harry S. Truman

#23. Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

Art Donovan

#24. Train your Children with Patience, Correct them in Love, Don't Discipline them out of hatred

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#25. Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.

John Thorn

#26. To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.

Vironika Tugaleva

#27. To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.

Brigham Young

#28. The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck with me is his example. From watching, I chose whether to be or not to be like him.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#29. The promises you speak over your children can take on the weight of destiny.

Neil Kennedy

#30. A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

Russell D. Moore

#31. Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Haim G. Ginott

#32. 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

#33. Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?

Jane Nelsen

#34. When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.

Dave Grohl

#35. I believe that parents who love their children do everything for them with love, even discipline.

Ellen J. Barrier

#36. What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

David Blunkett

#37. People with senses of humor always have perspective.

Vincent H. O'Neil

#38. The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.

Russell D. Moore

#39. It was because he wanted to kiss her so much that he stopped himself, bent over her hand, clicking his heels together, then let her go. "Adios, Isabella. Good luck. Please be careful. Stay safe."
"Goodbye, Finlay. May God protect you and keep you from harm.

Marguerite Kaye

#40. One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline ... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Anne Lamott