Successful Parents Quotes

#1. I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.

Robert C. Merton

#2. I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.

Al Roker

#3. You get a job when you have the right qualifications and work experience. Similarly, individuals should be allowed to be parents (considering that parenting is a full time job for at least 16 years) only when they completely understand how life/mind works and have implemented it in their lives.

Maddy Malhotra

#4. For the most part, mental illness is caused by an absence of or defect in the love that a particular child required from its particular parents for successful maturation and spiritual growth. It

M. Scott Peck

#5. Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Phillip Lim

#6. A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.

Timothy Carey

#7. Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.

H. David Burton

#8. I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Alex Haley

#9. I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

Teresa Palmer

#10. Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

Chris Abani

#11. No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

Frank Pittman

#12. I am a legal immigrant whose parents went from Russia to China to Chile to finally reach the United States and thereby give me a chance to have a better life. I served six years in the U.S. Army Reserve, went to college, have a successful career and have dedicated my life to being a good citizen.

Mike Medavoy

#13. How to advise parents for being successful in raising children still
remains an important unsolved problem.

Eraldo Banovac

#14. A great challenge for parents is how to prepare themselves for being successful in advising children.

Eraldo Banovac

#15. Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents' sacrifices were not in vain.

Dominique Moceanu

#16. My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

Ben Stein

#17. The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and ambition for you that your earthly parents have. They want you to do well and you can do it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#18. It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'

Aasif Mandvi

#19. My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

Jack Wagner

#20. It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

Jerry Kramer

#21. My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

Bill Gates

#22. A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their responsibilities ... Be eager to forgive when problems arise at home. Help with your younger brothers and sisters when needed. You are their hero.

Hugh W. Pinnock

#23. I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

Allison Williams

#24. My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.

Kangana Ranaut

#25. Children are God's homework assignment to parents. We are commissioned to love, teach and train them up for successful adulthood.

Stephen Kendrick

#26. We are an aspirational society. We believe that circumstances of your birth do not determine your outcome. You shouldn't have to be born to wealthy parents or the right zip code to be successful and do great things in our country!

Bobby Jindal

#27. I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

Hunter S. Thompson

#28. I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.

Derek Jeter

#29. The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#30. Unsatisfied parents produce professionally successful but personally discontent children.

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