Quotes by Speakers - Page 66

You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.
Gary Chapman
A sense of purpose is essential for achieving happiness and satisfaction in life.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
The best predictor of success is a sense of resiliency, grit, capacity to fail and get up. If you're prevented from feeling discomfort of failure, you have no sense of how to handle those things at all.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
We’re depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
God is at work telling a story of restoration and redemption through your family. Never buy into the myth that you need to become the "right" kind of parent before God can use you in your children's lives. Instead learn to cooperate with whatever God desires to do in your heart today so your children will have a front-row seat to the grace and goodness of God.
Reggie Joiner
There are many different ways of approaching parenting as there are cultures. However, in non-industrialized cultures, the similarities are also striking. Extended nursing, co-sleeping, carrying the baby in close physical contact, responding promptly to cries or distress, never leaving a baby alone, are all virtually universal in traditional societies that have not become overly "westernized".
Ingrid Bauer
How can families harm us when they love us? Very easily, unfortunately. Most of us overlook one important fact when we think love is enough: Love and respect aren't the same thing.Love is fusion. As a baby, you belong to your parents, you're extension of them. Respect is differentiation: you belong to yourself, and you're an extension of no one. Differentiation is essential for happiness of adults.
Barbara Sher
From the time they hit middle school, they start moving away from home. They are not doing anything wrong; it's just the way they are made. They are becoming independent, and they begin redefining themselves through the eyes other people who are not in their immediate family. The older they get, the more important it is to have other voices in their lies saying the same things but in a different way.
Reggie Joiner
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
Anne Lamott
I often must sacrifice my own needs and desires for the purpose of giving my children what they need and modeling for them the depths of Christ's love."...make myself available in the routine tasks and myriad interruptions of daily life b/c I believe it is God's will for me to serve my family through them.
Sally Clarkson
Ask your child for information in a gentle, nonjudgmental way, with specific, clear questions. Instead of “How was your day?” try “What did you do in math class today?” Instead of “Do you like your teacher?” ask “What do you like about your teacher?” Or “What do you not like so much?” Let her take her time to answer. Try to avoid asking, in the overly bright voice of parents everywhere, “Did you have fun in school today?!” She’ll sense how important it is that the answer be yes.
Susan Cain
Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, “All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
Gretchen Rubin
It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T.
Anne Lamott
Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
Bryant McGill
I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance.
Steve Maraboli
The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not evidence of a god.
Guy P. Harrison
A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.
Bryant McGill
Deep-rooted beliefs are one of the many consequences of intellect, and also of ignorance; and telling one from the other is sometimes impossible.
Bryant McGill
Ignorance is the supreme oppressor.
Bryant McGill
Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.
Clarence Darrow
This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can't see itself.
Bryant McGill
Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth.
Vironika Tugaleva
People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as it may, press forward as the dust settles. Your purpose is much bigger than their paltriness.
T.F. Hodge
To notice is to select, toregard some bits of perception, or some features of the world, as morenoteworthy, more significant, than others. To these we attend, and therest we ignore—for which reason conscious attention is at the same time ignorance despite the fact that it gives us a vividlyclear picture of whatever we choose to notice.
Alan W. Watts
Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors. When ignorance and hate enter the room, progress makes its exit.
Steve Maraboli
Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism.
Paul Isaacs
Physical nutrition is required to survive but you need to be mentally/emotionally healthy to thrive.
Maddy Malhotra
When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander Den Heijer
Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets.
Byrd Baggett
Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide
Gary Hopkins
Walking away from bad situations and negative people sets a healthier tone for the rest of your life. It also gives those who do not know any better the opportunity to self-correct.
Gary Hopkins
Don’t condemn me to the prison of your bullshit.
Steve Maraboli
You are a victim only when you have decided to play the part.
Gary Hopkins
The older you get the more you realize that just because someone has an important job doesn't necessarily mean that they do it responsibly, or are even good at it. There are many 'D' students running around with high social status gained from their seemingly important positions. Integrity and proficiency are not a given. These qualities can only be proven over time.
Gary Hopkins
You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted.
Bryant McGill
Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek.
Bryant McGill
Sure I find it very liberating and empowering now; but at first, it took me a while to get used to the uncomfortably vulnerable feeling that comes along with being honest.
Steve Maraboli
There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are.
Bryant McGill
Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life.
Bryant McGill
Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself.
Bryant McGill
The truth is never dressed for the occasion.
Steve Maraboli
Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned.
Ina Catrinescu
Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.
Orly Wahba
If you want to be a thought leader, market leader, or change the world - you have to give up the need to be liked. Telling people what they want to hear makes you popular. Telling people what they need to hear makes you relevant, empowering, and significant.Don't pander to the masses. Speak to the people you really want to reach and be honest. Challenge them to do more and become better. And know that if you're not attracting some haters - you're probably not doing something significant.
Randy Gage
Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.
Danielle LaPorte
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.
Clarence Darrow
The truth is simple.Lies are complex.The truth comes in sentences.Lies... in paragraphs.Pay attention to this when someone is communicating with you.
Steve Maraboli
The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.
Steve Maraboli
You need not strive to become your greater purpose.
Bryant McGill
There is no greater path than the act of listening.
Bryant McGill
There is no greater path than the act of listening, because the observer who listens can begin to see themselves as a part of one expression of purpose and beingness.
Bryant McGill
It is never an idea, technology, market forces, or access to capital that makes a company innovative. What differentiates an innovative company from an average company is the people working inside the company.
Jag Randhawa
Don't give-up on your greatest masterpiece — you.
Bryant McGill
Remember that any desire is tested; the greater the desire, the greater the tests.
Bryant McGill
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
Bryant McGill
Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.
Bryant McGill
Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words.
Bryant McGill
If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know.
Bryant McGill