Motivational Quotes: Parenting

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"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance."

Claus Moser

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

Henry Ford

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

Maya Angelou

"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."

Maya Angelou

"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."

Aristotle

"Children make your life important."

Erma Bombeck

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

Confucius

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

Confucius

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

Confucius

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

Confucius

"We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals."

Stephen Covey

"When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence."

Stephen Covey

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response."

Stephen Covey

"I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching."

Stephen Covey

"If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions."

Stephen Covey

"The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life."

Stephen Covey

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

Leonardo da Vinci

"I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted."

Dalai Lama

"I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion."

Dalai Lama

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"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

Albert Einstein