Family
154 quotes: 13 by Keith Craft, 141 from other voices.
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- Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
- Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.
- Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
- Love is at the root of everything. All learning. All parenting. All relationships. Love, or the lack of it.
- Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
- More kids are ruined by the behavior of their parents than by the amount they inherit. Children learn from your actions.
- Mothers are the gardeners of the human race.
- My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.
- My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
- My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys.
- No amount of money will buy back missed time with your kids.
- No artist-work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.
- No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
- No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.
- Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
- One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
- Parents focus too much on grades and goals, and too little on generosity. Kids raised to be kind are more successful in school and work — and happier too. At family dinner, don’t just ask kids what they achieved. Ask who they helped and who helped them.
- Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
- Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
- Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!
- Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.
- Remember kids are living life, not simply preparing for it.
- Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
- Snowplow parents prepare the road for kids. Responsible parents prepare kids for the road. Resilience is built not by eliminating struggle, but by normalizing it. Teach kids to see obstacles as temporary hurdles.
- Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house.
- Success is the child of audacity.
- [T]he parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand and pulling down with the other.
- Tell kids stories about your failures.
- The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them happy, you have wronged them; no other good they may get can make up for that.
- The first happiness of a child is to know that he is loved.
- The formative period of building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a sceptre more potent than that of kings and priests.
- The greatest gift you can bestow upon your children is your time and undivided attention.Jim BrozinaSourced
- The greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
- The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
- The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
- The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children is a legacy of character and faith.
- The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.
- The greatest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.
- The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.