I rounded up the best positive discipline quotes and inspirational parenting quotes I could find. Look, I get it. No matter how positive and patient you are, you can have a bad day. Your teen has an attitude, your toddler throws a tantrum, and you are at your wits head.

If you are having one of those days, lock yourself in the bathroom for a few moments and read these positive discipline quotes instead of losing it. One of my favorite ways to raise my vibration quickly is to read some quotes.

What is Positive Discipline?

According to Wikipedia, positive parenting (or positive discipline) is;

“Positive Discipline or PD is a discipline model used by schools and in parenting that focuses on the positive points of behavior. It is based on the idea that there are no bad children, just good and bad behaviors. Good behavior can be taught and reinforced while weaning the bad behaviors without hurting the child verbally or physically. People engaging in positive discipline are not ignoring problems. Rather, they are actively involved in helping the child learn how to handle situations more appropriately while remaining calm, friendly and respectful to the children themselves. Positive discipline includes a number of different techniques that can lead to a more effective way for parents to manage their kids behavior, or for teachers to manage groups of students.”

Positive parenting is based on the work of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs in the 1920s. It is based on the ideas that children need belonging, respect and to be taught life skills. Not just punishment. While you may think positive parenting ignores the issues, it does the opposite. With positive parenting you are not accepting bad behavior or overlooking it. Instead, you are getting to the root cause and dealign with it with love and respect.

Without further ado, here is my big list of positive parenting quotes to inspire you.

Big List of Positive Discipline Quotes

Positive Discipline Quotes:

“Respond to your children with love in the worst moments, their broken moments, their angry moments, their selfish moments, their lonely moments, their frustrating moments, their inconvenient moments because it is in their most unlovable human moments that they most need to feel loved.” -L.R. Knost

“I’m always amazed when adults say that children “just did that to get attention”. Naturally children who need attention will do all kinds of things to get it. Why not just give it to them?” –Lawrence J Cohen Nelson positive discipline quotes

“So often, children are punished for being human. They are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes. Yet, we adults have them all the time. None of us are perfect. We must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves. ”-Rebecca Eanes

“Parents are often quick to judge whether or not behavior warrants a punishment, but when we pause to listen to what the behavior is saying about our child’s feelings and experience, a whole new world opens up to us and our children.” -Rebecca Eanes

“It is better for your children to come to you by a feeling of respect and gentleness, than by fear. ”-Unknown

“Remember you are not managing an inconvenience. You are raising a human being.” – Kittie Franz

“If your children fear you, they cannot trust you. If they don’t trust you, they cannot learn from you.” –Lori Petro

“It is better to find your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.”–Terence positive discipline quotes

Jane Nelsen Positive Discipline Quotes:

“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”
― Jane Nelsen positive discipline quotes

“If you want to leave the park and your child isn’t ready to go, give her a hug and say, “You’re really upset right now. I know you want to stay, but it’s time to leave.” Then hold your child and let her experience her feelings before you move on to the next activity. If you were instead to pamper your child by letting her stay at the park longer, she doesn’t have the opportunity to learn from experience that she can survive disappointment.”

“Children do better when they feel better.”

Jane Nelson positive discipline quotes

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?

Positive Discipline Quotes Quality Time Quotes:

“How do we communicate worthiness to our children? Only through our presence. Our full-on, engaged, attuned presence.” -Dr. Shefali Tsabary

“I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred.”-Brene’ Brown

“Too much love never spoils children. Children become spoiled when we substitute presents for presence.” -Anthony Withman positive discipline quotes

“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” -Barbara Johnson positive discipline quotes

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” -Abigail Van Buren

“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.” –Catherine M Wallace

Positive Discipline Quotes Self-Esteem, and Confidence Quotes:

“Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.” -Unknown

“Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.” — Gary Smalley, family therapist

“To raise a child who is comfortable enough to leave you means you’ve done your job.  They are not ours to keep but to teach how to soar on their own. “-Unknown positive discipline quotes

“A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.” -Banksy

“Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” – Matthew Jacobsen

“If speaking kindly to plants helps them grow, imagine what speaking kindly to kids can do.”- Anonymous positive discipline quotes

“Every day, in a hundred small ways our children ask, “Do you hear me? Do you see me? Do I matter” There behavior often reflects our response.” -L.R. Knost

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”-Bill Ayers positive discipline quotes

“Every day our children spread their dreams beneath our feet. We should tread softly.”–Sir Ken Robinson positive discipline quotes

“I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to.“-Magda Gerber

Positive Discipline Quotes Showing Love Quotes:

“You must first teach a child he is loved. Only then is he ready to learn everything else.” -Amanda Morgan

“By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.” -Eileen Kennedy-Moore

“The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways.”  -Unknown

“Children must never work for our love, they must rest in it.” -Gordon Neufeld

“If your child feels loved, they will be courageous in life because they know they have a cushion to fall back on. If there’s one big gift we can give our children is to know they are truly love, no matter what.” Carolina King

“My message is very simple. Love your kids. Just love them. Love, appreciate, show that you value them, remind them of their greatness, encourage them, respect, honor, trust, and treat them with dignity. “–Eric D Greene

“One generation of deeply loving parents would change the brain of the next generation, and with that, the world.”
– Charles Raison

“Don’t let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget that you already have one. “–Glennon Melton

Parenting Responsibilities Quotes:

“Children should not be burdened with making us happy, nor blamed for making us sad or angry.  Children are not responsible for how we feel.  We are. “-Larissa Dann

“To shift the parenting paradigm so that it is no longer about the raising of the child, but the raising of the parent’s consciousness.” -Dr. Shefali Tsabary

“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”- L.R. Knost

“The point of parenting is not to have all the answers before we start out but instead to figure it out on the go as our children grow. Because as they do, so will we.” -Bridgett Miller

“There is no such thing as a perfect parent. Just be a real one.” -Sue Atkins

“The parenting journey holds the potential to be a spiritually regenerative experience for both parent and child, where every moment is a meeting of spirits, and both parent and child appreciate that each dances on a spiritual path that’s unique, holding hands and yet alone.” -Dr. Shefali Tsabary

“One hundred years from now it won’t matter what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove, but the world may be different because you were important in the life of a child.” – Forest E. Witcraft

On Spoiling Kids Quotes:

“Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.” -Thomas Bray

“Don’t raise your kids to have more than you had. Raise them to be more than you were.” -Unknown

Setting a Good Example Quotes:

“The most powerful way to change the world is to live in front of our children the way we would like the world to be.” -Graham R. White

“It’s not only children who grow. Parents do, too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell me children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself.” –Joyce Maynard

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” -Robert Fulghum

“The example we set for our kids – how to act when things don’t go our way- is much, much more important than the rules we set for them.” Leo Babauta

“Gentle parenting doesn’t involve instantaneous results, but naturally achieved, life-long lasting results.” –Kirsty Lee

“The sign of great parenting is not the child’s behavior.  The sign of truly great parenting is the parent’s behavior.”  -Unknown

On Motherhood Quotes:

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” Sophia Loren

“Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.” -Jessalyn Gilsig

“There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.” –Sue Atkins

I hope you enjoyed my list of positive discipline quotes! What are some of your favorites? Share your favorite positive discipline quotes in the comments below!