Quotes About Guidance

if you feel you must criticize your daughter's friends—and sometimes you must—use your words and your tone to communicate that the girls are in a tricky situation, not that they are bad people.

Stars to light our way.

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that's the way of the world.

with parenting there's a long game and a short game. The aim of the short game is to make your children bearable to live with. Easy to transport. Well behaved in public places. In other words, to make your own life easier. And, yes, you can achieve that with punishments, with discipline, with a clip here and there. But the aim of the long game is to produce a good human being.

A man is not entitled to be called a father merely because he once had a well-timed spasm of the loins.

Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

The way Everest is guided is very different from the way other mountains are guided, and it flies in the face of values I hold dear: self-reliance, taking responsibility for what you do, making your own decisions, trusting your judgment - the kind of judgment that comes only through paying your dues, through experience.

My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.

Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.

My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.

I have a very strong connection with my master, Daisaku Ikeda. I know his principles, I know his values, and I stick to them - that is the most important thing to me.

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.

Although the world has changed dramatically since 1843, we believe that the values that guide 'The Economist' are as relevant as ever.

The values me mam and dad tried to drum into us were no stealing, go to church, go to school - all of which we ignored. We'd fight, we stole, we cheated and we didn't go to school.

My parents did an excellent job of bringing me up with values.

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

My previous bosses - Louis van Gaal and Marcello Lippi, to name two - have all taught me something.

He moulded me as a player by teaching me the basics, the fundamentals of football, and definitely made me the player I was until I stopped playing. That is what Van Gaal does.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good.

Louis Van Gaal is a great coach. He has inspired a lot of players to give their best, shown them how to play.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.