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Quotes About Guidance

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
~ Maria Montessori
It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it
~ Robert Breault
The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.
~ Confucius
There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.
~ Jim Rohn
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
~ Russell Baker
Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.
~ Alfie Kohn
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
~ Josh Billings
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.
~ Grant Hill
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.
~ Lisa Alther
There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.
~ Wes Fesler
When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.
~ Leigh Anne Tuohy
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.
~ Sebastian Coe
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
~ Benjamin Carson
No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.
~ Russell M. Nelson
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
~ Jodi Picoult, House Rules
Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.
~ L. Tom Perry
Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
~ William Cecil
The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.
~ Michael Jackson
Parenting is the most important profession in the world.
~ John Wooden
A good parent gives their child roots and wings.
~ Jonas Salk
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.
~ Robert Breault