Family
154 quotes: 13 by Keith Craft, 141 from other voices.
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- The love you give your kids will travel several generations into the future.
- The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
- The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.
- The parent who sends his son out into the world uneducated, defrauds the community of a useful citizen, and bequeaths a nuisance.
- The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
- The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.Martin ShortSourced
- The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
- The words that the father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world; but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
- There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
- There’s not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, than with his children, servants, and neighbors.
- They who provide much wealth for their children but neglect to improve them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to be useful.
- Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.
- To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
- We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
- We have to prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child.
- We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
- We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
- We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
- What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
- Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
- When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.
- When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.David O. McKaySourced
- When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
- Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
- While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
- Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
- You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
- You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
- Your children need your presence more than your presents.
- Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be
- Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
- Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
- Your parents miss you and wish you’d call. Later you’ll miss them and wish you could.