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

• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Own
  • Deeds

• 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

• We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

  

  Mark Kennedy
  • Good
  • Children
  • Environment

• I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.

  

  Brian Blessed
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Space

• 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

• My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • God
  • Children
  • Humanity

• I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • World
  • Home

• One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little riff, and all of a sudden, it morphed into a song. It had never been touched by a guitar, which was very weird for us. 'Under the Ground' is the first song I have ever written that had nothing to do with the guitar.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Up
  • Song
  • Weird

• The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

  

  Xunzi
  • Men
  • Persons
  • Noble

• I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

  

  Dennis Eckersley
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Honor

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

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Children
  • Achievement
  • Praise