Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Charity

• In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Success

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Achievement

• I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Judge

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Children
  • Marriage

• You caused this. Mother is dead from having too many children.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Children
  • Mother

• Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

  

  Albert Camus
  • World
  • Children
  • Help

• Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

  

  Plautus
  • Life
  • Country
  • Children

• My children do not know what it's like to flip around channels. They either go to Netflix, Apple TV, or they pull up YouTube, and they can watch their shows.

  

  Joel McHale
  • Up
  • Children

• I certainly know women who had children, quit their jobs, and still have full-time nannies. That's who these women are: Even to the detriment of their own relationship with their kids, they want to appear perfect Martha Stewart moms.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Children
  • Age
  • Responsibility

• Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.

  

  Mario Diaz-Balart
  • Children
  • Poverty

• When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Children
  • School

• Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Children
  • Eyes

• My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Kitchen
  • Italian
  • Japanese

• Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production.

  

  David Fanning
  • Fall
  • Stock

• Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Principles
  • Fashioned

• Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Children
  • Achievement
  • Praise