Inspiring Quotes for My Son: A Collection of Wisdom

"I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that."

- John Green

"I realize that my dreams for you have come true. What an extraordinary person you have become. As you continue to grow please remember always how very much I love you."

- Susan Polis Schutz

"Behind you now is yesterday; let your experience and knowledge pave the way. Here's to you and to your success, we know you will give it your best."

- Theodore W. Higginsworth

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Your habits are powerful. They greatly influence the trajectory of your life. Create good habits and they will reward you. Create bad habits and they will destroy you."

- Thomas Griffin

"Always stay humble. You are not invincible, and who knows what tomorrow will bring."

- Thomas Griffin

"Not taking things personally is a superpower."

- Thomas Griffin

"If a person has done well in an endeavor, tell them. It costs you nothing, but the rewards will compound to your benefit over time."

- Thomas Griffin

"Change in life is constant. Accept this reality, and don’t waste the opportunities change brings."

- Thomas Griffin

"You are also not so great to think that you don’t need help. When you need it, ask in humility. People will help you."

- Thomas Griffin

"Before you’ve won on the outside, you’ve won on the inside."

- Thomas Griffin

"You can’t solve a problem you don’t understand. Seek to understand, then to solve."

- Thomas Griffin

"Learn from the past, but don’t live in it."

- Thomas Griffin

"Not everything that glitters is gold. Learn to spot the difference."

- Thomas Griffin

"Clarity is built by simplicity. The more simple something is, the more clear it becomes."

- Thomas Griffin

"You are becoming someone by default or by design. You are formed by what you pursue, so if you want to be someone, be intentional about it!"

- Thomas Griffin

"You shouldn’t close your heart, because Jesus opened his for you. He is your example to follow."

- Thomas Griffin

"A negative, self-defeating mindset is a virus. Work hard to keep it from infecting you."

- Thomas Griffin

"You are smart, capable and able. Don’t forget it!"

- Thomas Griffin

"Love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. He is there, and he can be trusted."

- Thomas Griffin

"The years will rush by, and one day you will be watching your son as a man, and feeling incredibly proud that he is caring, safe, making a contribution, and hopefully going far beyond you in the scope of his life."

- Steve Biddulph

"If you would have your son to walk honorably 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."

- Anne Brontë

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

- Kent Nerburn

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"A boy is a magical creature—you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart."

- Allan Beck

"A man ain’t nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that’s somebody."

- Toni Morrison

"A father is a teacher, a singer, a doctor, a lawyer & every heroic character to his son. But a son is only a son to a father."

- Sajal Sazzad

"A son needs his father at every situation he faces in present, and a father needs his son at every situation he faces for his son in past."

- Nishan Panwar

"To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, raise them to be kind."

- Shannon L. Alder

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I live for my sons. I would be lost without them."

- Princess Diana

"My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine."

- Maya Angelou

"I’ll never be upset if you aim high and miss, but I’ll always be upset if you aim low and hit."

- Thomas Griffin

"A champion adjusts to the wind, not complains about it."

- Clayton Kershaw

"You're not just playing for today, but for the stories you'll tell tomorrow."

- Johnny Bench

"Behold, sons are a gift from the Lord. Happy the man whose quiver is filled with them."

- Psalm 127: 3-5

"My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed."

- Proverbs 23:15

"Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck."

- Proverbs 1:8-9

"Correct your son, and he will give you comfort; He will also delight your soul."

- Proverbs 29:17

"And he said to him, ‘Son, you have always been with me, and all that is mine is yours."

- Luke 15:31

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot—it's all there."

- Maya Angelou

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"One pitch can change everything. Be ready for your moment."

- Curt Schilling

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Baseball isn't just a sport, it's a way to grow into a man."

- Joe Torre

"You don't win alone. Trust your teammates like they trust you."

- David Ortiz

"Greatness isn't born on game day, it's built in practice."

- Chipper Jones

"Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often."

- Susan Statham

"You don't find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"You can't control the umpire's call, but you can control your hustle."

- Ichiro Suzuki

"Baseball is simple: see the ball, hit the ball. Life's the same, focus on what's in front of you."

- Reggie Jackson

"A great player practices until he gets it right. A champion practices until he can't get it wrong."

- Tony Gwynn

"The scoreboard doesn't define you, your effort does."

- Ken Griffey Jr.

"Baseball teaches you patience. Good things come to those who wait and work."

- Tom Seaver

"Swing for the fences, but respect the grind of every single."

- Hank Aaron

"Success in baseball comes from preparation, not luck. Put in the work."

- Nolan Ryan

"You don't have to be the biggest or strongest, just the most determined."

- Jackie Robinson

"Baseball is about hustle. Be the kid who never stops running."

- Pete Rose

"The only way to prove you're a good sport is to lose with grace and win with humility."

- Ernie Banks

"It's not how you start, but how you finish. Keep swinging, my boy."

- Derek Jeter

"Baseball is a game of inches, but it's also a game of heart. Play with all of yours, son."

- Cal Ripken Jr.

"Every strike brings you closer to the next home run. Don't give up, son."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Maya Angelou

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"Understand that one day you will have the power to make a difference, so use it well."

- Mindy Kaling

"The only man who has stolen my heart is my son."

- Sandra Bullock

"The secret of success in life is to be ready for your opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try."

- William Arthur Ward

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Remind yourself daily: While education is useful, it’s love that children and the world need. A deeply loved child with only some education will go much further than a well educated child lacking love."

- Vince Gowmon

"The best education does not happen at a desk, but rather engaged in everyday living – hands on, exploring, in active relationship with life."

- Vince Gowmon

"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments – tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become."

- Louis Pasteur

"You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

- e.e. cummings

"If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns."

- Rita Dunn

"What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become."

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

"It is vital that when educating our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts."

- Dalai Lama

"A child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."

- Casals

"The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn."

- Maria Montessori

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Stop trying to turn children into someone they are not. Instead, let them unfold into who no human can imagine them to be."

- Vince Gowmon

"You have my whole heart. You always did. You’re the best guy. You always were."

- Cormac McCarthy

"To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, and raise them to be kind."

- Shannon L Alder

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

- Sarah Shahi

"And she loved a little boy very, very much — even more than she loved herself."

- Shel Silverstein

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."

- Clay P. Bedford

"We see how early childhood experiences are so important to lifelong outcomes, how the early environment literally becomes embedded in the brain and changes its architecture."

- Andrew S. Garner

"Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives."

- Thomas Berry

"The art of teaching lies in knowing the balance between structure and flow, telling and asking, speaking and silence."

- Vince Gowmon

"Discipline is helping a child solve a problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solutions, not retribution."

- L.R. Knost

"Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions."

- Alfie Kohn

"If we want children to become creative leaders then we must learn to follow their lead at an early age."

- Vince Gowmon

"Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity."

- Kay Redfield Jamison

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

- Albert Einstein

"Trust children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted."

- John Holt

"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."

- Alice Miller

"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life."

- Frederick W. Robertson

"You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes."

- Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."

- Bob Talbert

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

- Alvin Toffler

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."

- Angela Schwindt

"Children dance before they know there is anything that isn’t music."

- William Stafford

"Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times."

- Allen Klein

"The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike."

- H. L. Mencken

"Strong-willed children become adults who change the world as long as can hang on for the ride and resist the temptation to ‘tame’ the spirit out of them."

- Sarah Stogryn

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

- William Arthur Ward

"To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world."

- Dr. Seuss

"Yet now in my arms, I was holding a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man. I cannot imagine that soft little face one-day having whiskers."

- Rhonda Stoppe

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see."

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

"Struggling to decide what to do after graduation is, and always will be, a sort of rite of passage to the next phase of your life."

- Gloria Davidson

"A lot of what we do with children is well intentioned interference."

- Niki Buchan

"Sons are born to make their fathers better men."

- Mekael Shane

"Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one."

- Thiruvalluvar

"You are the architect of your own destiny."

- Swami Sivananda

"To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today."

- Barbara Johnson

"Learning is not a spectator sport."

- D. Blocher

"Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold."

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

"Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people."

"Your success makes us proud parents; work hard and conquer your dreams, son."

"This cap and gown symbolize the end of one chapter and the exciting beginning of another. Proud doesn't even begin to cover what we feel today."

"You've surpassed every goal we ever set for you. Congratulations!"

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"Don't wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect."

"Your diploma is your passport to a world of possibilities. May you travel far, learn endlessly, and always find your way back home."

"Your graduation is a stepping stone to a future full of possibilities."

"What you have learned so far has brought your future within reach; what you continue to learn will help you accomplish your dreams."

"Your achievements are the best reward for our parenting journey."

"To my son: May this birthday bring you joy today and dreams for all your tomorrows."

"On National Sons Day, I celebrate you, son, a heart that beats with purpose."

"To my son: You're a storm of potential and a calm of love, be strong!"

"Happy National Sons Day! You're the strength I didn't know I had."

"Sons don't just follow paths, they blaze new trails for us all."

"A son's journey is the story of a family written in bold."

"Sons are the bridge between who we are and who we can become."

"A son's courage is the echo of every lesson he's learned and every love he's known."

"To my son: You're the heartbeat of our family and the hope of our future."

"To my son: You're the reason I believe in miracles, shine on this special day."

"Happy National Sons Day! You're proof that strength and kindness can live in one heart."

"Sons don't just carry your name, they carry your hopes into the future."

"A son is a gift, a challenge, and a promise of a better tomorrow."

"Chase your dreams, burst out at the seams. Never stop trying, never stop learning. Live life to the fullest, give it nothing but your best."

"You are the hero of your own journey, act like it."

"The world is full of possibilities waiting for your courage."

"There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between the mother and a son."

- Unknown

"Happy Birthday, my son! You're building a life of courage, one amazing year at a time."

"The best thing about your birthday, son, is watching you become the man you're meant to be."

"From the very beginning, you've been a blessing. I love you with all my heart, my son."

"When I feel weak, I look at my son and remember the power of love and hope."

"To my son on his birthday: The world is yours to conquer, go make it yours!"

"Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time."

"Happy Birthday! You were born to stand out, and every year you prove it more."

"Son, your birthday is a reminder that you're a gift to us and a promise to the world."

"May this birthday mark the start of a year where you chase every dream with a fearless heart."

"Son, you will outgrow my lap, but never my heart."

- Unknown

"Sons may grow into men and grow out of their toys, but in the hearts of their mothers they are still their little boys."

- Unknown

"The greatest gift you can give yourself is to believe in yourself."

"Please excuse the mess, children are making memories."

"Happy Birthday! Your strength and perseverance inspire me daily."

"May your heart always be filled with love and your mind with wisdom."

"Your perseverance is a beacon of hope."

"You have the power to overcome any obstacle. I believe in your ability to achieve greatness."

"Your intelligence and creativity are the keys to unlocking your dreams."

"Your kindness and compassion make the world a better place. Continue to spread your love wherever you go."

"Your hard work and perseverance are paving the way for a bright future. Keep pushing forward."

"Your laughter is the melody of my heart. Never lose your ability to find joy in every day."

"May your journey be filled with love, laughter, and countless blessings."

"You are capable of achieving anything you set your mind to. Believe in your potential as much as I do."