Quotes About Influence

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

I think you should be into whatever your kids care about, and fuel that desire. That's good parenting.

Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.

The world's greatest changes are made at home.

Parenting needs to come to the forefront.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.

I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.