Parenting Success Quotes

I have a great relationship with my kids. We're very honest with each other, and I'm very proud that we are absolutely, incredibly close. That to me is more important than anything.

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

At the end of the day, what difference does it make if you made 10 films or 18 films? You made 10 films, but you had a great relationship with your kids, or at least you did your best not to screw them up irrevocably, or you made 18, and they don't return your phone calls.

I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

I know for sure my son will grow up one day to say I was a great dad.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.

Some things make me emotional in a good way. When my son does well in school, I get real emotional because that's a testament to what I'm feeding him at home on a daily basis as far as knowledge goes. I wasn't so emotional until I had my first son.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent.

They were responsible. I had very good kids. I was very lucky.

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

You don't have to do everything right as a parent, but there is one thing you cannot afford to get wrong. That one thing is prayer. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. There is nothing you can do that will have a higher return on investment. In fact, the dividends are eternal.