Putting Your Child First Quotes

Putting your child first is one of the most important actions a parent can take. Here are 99 quotes to inspire and remind you to always prioritize your child:

1. “Your children need your presence more than your presents.” – Jesse Jackson
2. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
3. “The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” – Billy Graham
4. “The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” – Frank A. Clark
5. “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” – O. A. Battista
6. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
7. “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson
8. “A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” – Billy Graham
9. “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair
10. “The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other.” – John Wooden
11. “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
12. “The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as an excellent role model.” – Zig Ziglar
13. “A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.” – Benjamin Spock
14. “A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.” – Chinese Proverb
15. “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
16. “There is no such thing as a perfect parent, so just be a real one.” – Sue Atkins
17. “The best way to teach your children about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.” – Bill Murray
18. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John F. Kennedy
19. “The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” – Charles Dickens
20. “A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided.” – Robert Brault
21. “A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” – Marion C. Garretty
22. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
23. “We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
24. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
25. “You don’t have to be perfect to be a perfect parent.” – Adoption and Foster Care
26. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana
27. “The love of family and the admiration of friends are much more important than wealth and privilege.” – Charles Kuralt
28. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
29. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
30. “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw
31. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
32. “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers
33. “The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – John Wooden
34. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
35. “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII
36. “The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
37. “A man should never neglect his family for business.” – Walt Disney
38. “The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.” – Harold B. Lee
39. “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu
40. “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.” – Unknown
41. “A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.” – Buddha
42. “A family is a little world created by love.” – Unknown
43. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
44. “The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” – Marge Kennedy
45. “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII
46. “The family is a haven in a heartless world.” – Christopher Lasch
47. “The world, we’d discovered, doesn’t love you like your family loves you.” – Louis Zamperini
48. “Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they’re driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.” – Jenna Morasca
49. “The family is the nucleus of civilization.” – Will Durant
50. “In time of test, family is best.” – Burmese Proverb
51. “The family is a haven in a heartless world.” – Christopher Lasch
52. “No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.” – Claire LaZebnik
53. “Family is like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.” – Unknown
54. “The family is the school of duties – founded on love.” – Felix Adler
55. “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
56. “A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss… That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all.” – Brad Pitt
57. “Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” – J.K. Rowling
58. “Family is the most important thing in the world.” – Princess Diana
59. “I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.” – Barbara Bush
60. “Family is the most important thing in the world.” – Princess Diana
61. “A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.” – Charles R. Swindoll
62. “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII
63. “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
64. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
65. “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII
66. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
67. “I sustain myself with the love of family.” – Maya Angelou
68. “The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
69. “The family is the center of life and it is the key to eternal happiness.” – L.Tom Perry
70. “Family is the most important thing in the world.” – Princess Diana
71. “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.” – Unknown
72. “The only rock I know that stays steady