28 Inspirational Quotes For Foster Parents

As we reflect on the past year and prepare for 2019, here are a few of our favorite inspirational quotes for foster parents (and families) — the unsung heroes who help to care for precious children in need of a loving home. Keep them close to your heart, share them with your children, and have a very happy New Year from your friends at Camelot Care Centers.

1. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”  – Mark Twain

• “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”  – A.A. Milne

• “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”  – Oscar Wilde

• “Be the change you want to see in the world.”  – Mahatma Gandhi

• “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”  – Eleanor Roosevelt

• “Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth.”  – Archimedes

• “Everything you can imagine is real.”  – Pablo Picasso

• “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”  – Nelson Mandela

• “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react that matters.”  – Epictetus

1.  “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

1.  “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”  – Mark Twain

1.  “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”  – Mahatma Gandhi

1.  “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”  – Confucius

1.  “We need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”  – Fred Rogers

1.  “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”  – Frederick Douglas

1.  “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”  – Theodore Roosevelt

1.  “If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.”  – Amy Tan

1.  “It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.”  – Archimedes

1.  “Start by doing the necessary, then the possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”  – St. Francis of Assisi

•  “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

•  “The wisest men follow their own course.”  – Euripides

•  “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”  – Oprah Winfrey

•  “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”  – George Bernard Shaw

•  “Nothing happens unless first a dream.”  – Carl Sandburg

•  “Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children.”  – Princess Diana

•  “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”  – Mother Teresa

•  “What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”  – Nicholas Sparks

•  “Every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story.  – Josh Shipp

Every child needs and deserves to grow up safe and protected from abuse and neglect, and caring foster parents offer children support and stability when they need it most. At Camelot Care Centers, we specialize in higher-level foster care for children and adolescents that need extra support. We partner with our foster parents/homes to provide trauma informed care and additional services, including in-home counseling, parent support and training, tele-psychiatry, and therapeutic mentoring, to maintain children at the least restrictive, yet most appropriate level of care. Camelot Care Centers (“Camelot”) is a Child Welfare Agency licensed by the State of Illinois, a member of the Illinois Collaboration on Youth (ICOY), and is accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA).