Parenting / Coaching / Teaching Quotes

One of the things I make part of every practice is a quote of some sort, so I collect and find them, as I did last weekend with these from a book at the Broadmoor where I attended another parenting excellence/trust psychology 3 day seminar.

I found each of these to hit home thinking about the parallel worlds of teaching/coaching/parenting...hope you find some new ones, the first one is over my stove on a picture. Many of these I read for the first time...

There are two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. - Hodding Carter

To be born is to be lucky. Later, life may prove to be a failure or success, but that life is there should be a matter of congratulation, daily renewed. - Kylie Tennant

Imagination is more important than reality. -  Albert Einstein

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops - Henry Adams

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.  - Aldous Huxley

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King

Our task is not to fix the blame on the past but to fix the course toward the future. - John F. Kennedy

Do what you can, with you what you have, where you are. -  Teddy Roosevelt

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.  - Henry Ford

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence. - Vince Lombardi

One mother teaches more than 100 teachers. - Jewish proverb

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. - George Adams

Nothing has a better effect on children than praise. - Sir P. Sidney

The rain falls on all the fields, but crops grow only in those that have been tilled and sown. - Chinese proverb

Work is love made visable. - Kahlil Gibran

People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -  Mother Theresa

Little by little does the trick. - Abraham Lincoln

If a child lives with praise, he will learn to appreciate. - Dorothy Nolte

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.  - Latin proverb

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. - Pope John XXIII

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. - Rabbinical saying

The important thing is to not stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

There is a great man, who makes very many feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. - G. K. Chesterton

I can live for two months on a good compliment. -  Mark Twain

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. - Calvin Coolidge

If you want to be a leader with a large following, just obey the speed limit on a winding two-lane road. - Charles Farr

Behind every able man there are always other able men. - Chinese proverb

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am  and listening to them. - Harry Kaiser

People need to see how much agreement is possible between seemingly intractable opponents. - Robert Redford

There’s few things as uncommon as common sense. - Frank Hubbard

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. - G. K. Chesterton

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure  try to please everyone. - Herbert Swope

You’ve got to continue to grow or you’re just like last nites cornbread  stale and dry -  Loretta Lynn

It’s a sheer waste of time to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different. - Dr. Frank Cane

A good deed it never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love. - St. Basil

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.  - Robert South

Don’t find fault, find the remedy. - Henry Ford

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services that can be done to man, I know of none more precious.  -  William Hale White

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. - Henry David Thoreau

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Education is helping the child realize his potentialities. - Erich Fromm

Though we travel the world to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Ghandi

He got the better of himself, and that’s the best kind of victory one can wish for. - Miguel Cervantes

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.-  Thomas Fuller

What comes from the heart goes to the heart. -  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Give to every other human being, every right that you claim for yourself. - Robert Ingersoll

Statistics are no subsitute for judgement. - Henry Clay

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears. - Dean Rusk

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self. - Aldous Huxley

The best things and the best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. - Robert Frost

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him into a happy place, unless he first is in a happy state. -  Benjamin Whichcote