Stephen Covey Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Change, Family

• Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

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  Mother, Children, Father

• Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

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  Family, Children, Father

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

• The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

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  Children, Heart, Appreciate

• Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.

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  Motivational, Children, Believe

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

• When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

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  Strength, Children, Home

  "Our Children and the Crisis in Education" by Stephen R. Covey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2010.

• Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

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  Children, School, Roles

  "Our Children and the Crisis in Education" by Stephen R. Covey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2010.

• If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Children, Results

• It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

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  Children, Commitment, Views

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

• All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.

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  Children, Goal, Parent

  Stephen R. Covey (2009). “Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life”, p.181, Thomas Nelson

• The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.

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  Children, Love You, Spouse

  Stephen R. Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”, p.154, St. Martin's Press

• Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.

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  Children, Roles, Helping

• Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

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  Children, School, Identity

• Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Skills, Challenges

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