The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.
No author
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Abigail Van Buren
The child that gets a stepmother gets a stepfather also.
Danish proverbs
Every mother's child is handsome.
German proverbs
He knows not what love is that has not children.
Italian proverbs
A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Elie Wiesel
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung
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
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Albert Einstein
