Family
154 quotes: 13 by Keith Craft, 141 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Family
- A father's affirmation becomes a daughter's relationship standard.
- The lessons you've learned from your family of origin, are your life lessons to help you win at life.
- The purpose of your family of origin is to learn from more than to be loved by.
- You were given your family of origin to learn from, not to be loved by.
- Your Marriage and your Family are the greatest predictors of how your Teams will be and whether or not your dreams c you are dreaming will ome true.
- Our family of origin is our practice to teach us how we want to be and don’t want to be, how to act and not to act, and helps us to understand what we want and don’t want in our lives.
- Our family of origin is the family we were born into. Our family of choice is the people we choose to do life with.
- We do not choose our family of origin, but we can choose our family of choice to do the life we want with.
- Big Thought: God has a plan for your family because…you are His family.
- The ideal family is what you make it.
- Our Family of Origin gives us our first life lessons, by default or by design, that we spend the rest of our lives either building upon or trying to overcome.
- The reason a strong Family Culture by Design is important is because it teaches your children to be PROACTIVE in a Re-active world.
- The greatest privilege of parenting is not to simply "beget" children, but to take the challenge to lead yourself, so you can lead your children!
Other voices on Family
- A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
- A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned.
- A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity as in everything else.
- A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
- A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
- A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising six weeks.
- A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
- A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
- An industrious and virtuous education of children is a better inheritance for them than a great estate.
- Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Be the man you wish your father was.
- Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.
- Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.
- Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
- Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
- Children are mirrors, they reflect back to us all we say and do.
- Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
- Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
- Children have more need of models than of critics.Joseph JoubertCommonly attributed
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.James BaldwinSourced
- Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach.
- Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.
- Children will listen to you after they feel listened to.
- Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
- Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
- Do not, then, train boys to learning by force and harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be the better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
- Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.