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Children
have more need
of models than of critics.
Joseph
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The young are looking for living models whom they
can imitate
and who are capable of rousing their enthusiasm and
drawing them
to a deeper kind of life.
More than anything else, the young need
sure guides to go
with them on the paths of liberation
that God maps out for them.
Bakole wa Ilunga
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The
best way to teach children restraint and generosity is to be
a model of those qualities yourself. If your children see
that you
want a particular item but refrain from buying it, either because
it isn’t practical or because you can’t afford it, they will
begin
to understand restraint. Likewise, if you donate books or
clothing
to charity, take them with you to distribute the items
to teach them about generosity.
Lawrence
Balter
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Whether
or not you have children yourself, you are a parent
to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children
as individual property and think of them as the next generation,
then we can realize we all have a role to play.
Charlotte
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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.
Stephen
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A troubled mother took her daughter to
see Mohandas Gandhi,
who was world-renowned for his great
spiritual discipline. It seems
the young girl had become
addicted to eating sweets, and her mother
wanted Gandhi to speak
to her about this harmful habit and convince
her to drop it.
Upon hearing this request, Gandhi paused in silence
and then told
the mother, "Bring the girl back to me in three weeks
and I
will speak to her then."
Just as she was instructed, the mother returned with her
daughter,
and Gandhi, as he had promised, spoke to the girl about
the detrimental
effects of eating too many sweets. He
counseled her to give them up.
The mother gratefully thanked Gandhi, but was perplexed.
"Why,"
she asked him, "did you not speak to my
daughter when we first came to you?"
"My good woman," Gandhi replied, "three weeks
ago
I myself was still addicted to sweets!" |
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You
are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you
teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot
change other people, you can influence them through your
own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of
what
you want to receive from others, you create more of
what you want in your life.
Eric
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Celebrity-worship
and hero-worship should not
be confused. Yet we confuse them every day,
and by doing so we come dangerously close to
depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose
sight of the men and women who do not simply
seem great because they are famous but are
famous because they are great. We come closer
and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.
Daniel J.
Boorstin |
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I
think it's an honor to be a role model to one person
or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance
to be a role model, I think you should always take it
because you can influence a person's life in a positive light,
and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
Tiger
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Don't
worry that children never listen to you.
Worry that they are always watching you.
Robert
Fulghum |
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You are the bows from which your children as
living arrows are sent forth.
Khalil
Gibran |
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You've
got to be careful whom you pattern yourself after
because you're likely to become just like them.
Rich Mayo |
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If I am walking with two other people, each of
them will serve as my teacher.
I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them,
and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius |
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You
don't have to know people personally for them to be role models.
Some of my most important role models were historical or literary
figures
that I only read about--never actually met.
John
Wilson |
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The
most important role models in people's lives, it seems,
aren't superstars or household names. They're 'everyday'
people who quietly set examples for you--coaches, teachers,
parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps
not even consciously, 'I want to be like that.'
Tim Foley |
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Some
of the most important people in my life would be shocked
to learn that they were role models. They weren't
celebrities,
or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality
that I admired, that made me want to be like them.
Donn
Moomaw |
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Each person must live
their life as a model for others.
Rosa Parks |
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If you as parents cut
corners, your children will too. If you lie,
they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe
no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues,
and
civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents
snicker
at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on
the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
Marian Wright Edelman |
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