50 of the Best Potty Training Quotes [Because we all need a good laugh]

Last Updated on October 4, 2023 by Michele Tripple

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We are rounding up 50 of the best potty training quotes to give you a good laugh because let’s be honest potty training can be a real struggle, so why not laugh through it!

Potty training is usually one of those stages that we all wish we could just skip. The potty training accidents and the potty training regression might just make you a little bit crazy!

But good news! We are here to help you through the most difficult stage of toddlerhood (in ouor opinion) with a few laughs with these potty training quotes.

These potty training quotes might make you laugh, they might even make you cry, but one thing is for sure they might just make it a little bit easier when it comes to potty training stubborn kids!

Check out our favorite potty training quotes!

Best Potty Training Quotes

“Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.”

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One winter morning, my daughter said “I have to go potty, but can you go first and warm it up for me?”

— Vitoria Corps, Wichita, KS

“I’m going to put a diaper on you for nap because you’re still learning. You’ve done such a good job today, and your nap is a long time. You may not remember to pee when you’re sleeping. When you wake up, we’re going to take it right off.”

— Jamie Glowacki, Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”

— Franklin P. Jones

“Potty training is a great reminder as to why I didn’t become a motivational speaker.”

— OutNumberedMother

“Before being held hostage potty training, stock up on essential reserves like paper towels, snack and wine… mostly, wine!”

— hahasforhoohas.com

“Go. Pants. Sit. Pee.”

— Jamie Glowacki, Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“When potty training a boy, you will clean parts of a toilet you never knew existed.”

— Someecards

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”

— Napoleon Hill

“Fact: Potty training parents release endorphins at the mere sight of poo in the potty… or is it just me?”

— the hilljean.com

“You may have noticed that poop has its very own chapter. Yeah. It’s that big a freaking deal.”

— Jamie Glowacki, Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“You know you’re potty training when you have a potty in the kitchen and candy in the bathroom.”

— Huggies

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

— Florence Nightingale

“Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty.”

— Julia Roberts

“The need to pee and poop is a primal one; learning to put it somewhere specific is social, and social behavior must be taught.”

— Jamie Glowacki, Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“Potty training is 98% asking a toddler if they have to go to the potty, them saying “no”, and then them peeing everywhere 2 minutes later.”

— @KidsAreDorks

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

— Wayne Gretzky

“Potty training my kid, and I just made up a cheer with the word POOP in it. Burning my college degree later today.”

— @CarrieOnYall

“Your child should go commando (aka, no underpants but with pants) for about a month, give or take a week.”

— Jamie Glowacki, Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“6 hours into potty-training and I just want a dark corner, a bottle, a pack of smokes and to gently cry myself into oblivion.”

— Damian Morphay

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Spent this evening potty training. I’ve called a toilet a train, wiped up puddles of wee & been farted on in the face.”

— @BelindaMountain

“You will still be using diapers for naps and bedtime during Block Two. Again, clearly state why the diaper is going on, and when it will come off. You should still be praising or at least acknowledging what your child is learning.”

— Jamie GlowackiOh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“When you give your child a potty-training pep talk but really you’re talking to yourself…”

— @parentsmagazine

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

— Arthur Ashe

“Potty training my twins is like the Titanic’s maiden voyage… In the beginning we are excited, in the end everyone is crying and all wet.”

— @redaramirez86

“I used to suggest holding off on the nap if you hadn’t gotten a poop in the morning hours. This is ultimately your call,”

— Jamie Glowacki, Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“Potty training is my least favorite part of motherhood thus far.”

— @sarita516

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”

— Joshua J. Marine

“Seated next to me on the train is a bearded man reading a book called “Oh, Crap! Potty Training.” He looks like he’s got it under control.”

— @PamelaPaulNYT

“Many parents want a cookie-cutter version of potty training. There’s no such thing. It doesn’t exist. Also, it infuriates me that your neighbor with two children thinks she knows everything about this potty training gig.”

— Jamie Glowacki, Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“NOTHING scarier than a potty training toddler telling you shes gotta pee when shes wearing underwear & the bathrooms on the opposite side”

— @kylieee143

“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“We are about to kick this potty training in high gear. My daughter gone learn today…or maybe next month…or the next…”

— @thickysmiley

“Clueless to I Peed to I’m Peeing to I Have to Go Pee? Look for progress, not perfection. Nothing is really a problem on these first few days.”

— Jamie Glowacki, Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“There is no apt analogy for potty training twins. It is just accepting that you will faintly smell of urine for a very long time.”

— @TwinFreakout

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

— Abigail Van Buren

“I’m at a point in my life to where if I mention “pull-ups” I’m most likely talking about potty training underwear and not exercise.”

— @Soda_hunter

“When can I move the potty chair to the bathroom? This is a question I get asked a lot. It is totally your call. Usually, it happens when you get sick of the potty chair being in the living room (or playroom or kitchen). A lot of this will depend on your house setup. There will be an indefinable moment when you know your child can make it to the bathroom.”

—  Jamie Glowacki, Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“Before potty training I never knew there could be so much bonding on a toilet seat.”

— @confidentialmo1

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

— Confucius

“Mama, sissy made poop in her shoe” are never words a mom wants to hear.”

— @rthoseyourkids

“Panic, fear, and dread will only put more difficulties in your path. Relaxed is key.”

— Jamie Glowacki, Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“Least favorite thing I’ve heard today from my toddler: “pee everywhere.”

— @Pastor_KristinG

“Remember people, when you see a person grumpy,, be nice to him.. they could be potty training a toddler!!”

— pottytrainingapp.com

“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.”

— Teddy Roosevelt

“My life is covered in pee.”

— @AleksConrad

“Potty training a toddler is like dealing with a drunk person.”

— itunes.apple.com

“Underpants, self-initiation, and night/nap dryness all sort of blend into the recipe at around three weeks after your start date.”

— Jamie GlowackiOh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right

“I decided to stop potty training my boy, I would let her future wife do it!!”

— pottytrainingapp.com

There you have it! The best potty training quotes to help you through! Got a fun quote to add? Share in the comments!

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