39 Quotes About Raising Boys

The need to raise your young boys into men is a part of successful parenting and needed to prepare them for life. These quote about raising boys capture the mindset that is needed to be successful.

“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”

“A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.”

“A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.”

“As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories for your son.”

“Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.”

“Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person – a door which you may not even have known was there. That’s what I feel with my son. There’s suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life.”

“Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.”

“Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.”

“But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.”

“Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.”

“For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

“Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.”

“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.”

“He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.”

“Honestly, I feel like everything in life happens for a reason, and my son has been the greatest gift that God has given me in my life and been the most game-changing thing that’s happened to my life, in a necessary way.”

“I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.”

“I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.”

“I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.”

“I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who’s a producer, ‘You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'”

“I have no ambitions at all! I have none… seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don’t have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.”

“I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.”

“I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.”

“I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn’t do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you’re done, don’t make your hobby your job.”

“If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.”

“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”

“I’m doing my best to raise my son and give him a nurturing, loving, and caring environment so he can grow up and be the best version of himself.”

“I’m the one person who wears the words ‘hustle, loyalty, respect’ on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It’s very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it’s even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, ‘I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re a role model for my son.'”

“It’s really special to have a niece because I have a son, so I get to have a little girl, too.”

“My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.”

“My son has been the best thing that has happened in my life. He has been amazing, and he is truly heaven-sent. And so, I just feel all that love.”

“My son is a blessing in every way.”

“My son’s the most precious thing to me; he’s changed me from being selfish to selfless.”

“One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you’ll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they’re both enjoying it.”

“That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.”

“The day my son was born my life changed completely.”

“The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.”

“The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.”

“There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer – or maybe president.”

“Until you have a son of your own… you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.”

There are many things that are required to raise an emotionally competent and intelligent child.