Instill Quotes

• Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

  Sonny Perdue

  Teacher, Encouragement, Art

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• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

  Joe Baca

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Happy

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• There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Daddy, Work Ethic, Way

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

  James Dobson

  Children, Father, Home

  James C. Dobson (1991). “How to Raise Children That Love the Lord”, Chariot Family Pub

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• It's very important to instill values in children.

  James Van Praagh

  Children, Important, Values

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill.

  Jeff Bryant

  Children, Integrity, People

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• Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

  John Maeda

  Design, Enough, Novel

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

  Mark Hoppus

  Country, Son, Cowboy

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• I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Passion, People, Who We Are

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• It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

  Andre Gide

  Reality, Worry, Would Be

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• So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.

  Dorothy Day

  Mean, Men, Heaven

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• I just try to make sure every day that I'm blessed to live on this earth that I seize that day. I'm 25 and, you know, I know with each passing second, I'm getting older. So, I might well seize every single one of those seconds and make sure I'm doing as much as I possibly can in the community to know we worked hard for this and to instill that into everybody around me is truly my goal.

  Robert Griffin III

  Blessed, Goal, Community

  "Mitt Romney on Hillary Clinton's candidacy, crowded GOP field; Sen. Bob Menendez on indictment, Iran and Cuba". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2015.

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• The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, People, Mind

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1951.

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• I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.

  Michael Ian Black

  Laughing, Parent, Trying

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

  Scott Walker

  Moving, America, People

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• My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.

  Charles Koch

  Father, People, Work Ethic

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . . . He makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and . . . he instills in the heart of the monk a hatred for the place, a hatred for his very life itself.

  Kathleen Norris

  Moving, Heart, Hatred

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• Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Healthy, Desire, Trying

  "Kelly Clarkson: ‘I Have No Desire To Be Super-Skinny’" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

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• I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music.  Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness.  But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.

  Ernst Bacon

  Art, Book, Phases

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

  Ian Dunbar

  Kids, Mind, Suffering

  "The Anti-Cesar Millan / Ian Dunbar's been succeeding for 25 years with lure-reward dog training; how come he's been usurped by the flashy, aggressive TV host?" by Louise Rafkin, www.sfgate.com. October 15, 2006.

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• If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away.

  Ted Trueblood

  Appreciation, Children, Treasure

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• Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

  Merikare

  Character, World, Remembered

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• It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Intellectual, Atheism, Matter

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• My faith instills in me a deep sense of humility and gratitude, reminding me how often I fall short and how much I need the savior, and how thankful I am that God has done for us what we could not do for ourselves.

  Karen Hughes

  Faith, Gratitude, Fall

  Karen Hughes (2004). “Ten Minutes from Normal”, p.341, Penguin

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