Top 1200 Being A Good Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.

Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

Being [in] a show that you get to say good-bye instead of being asked to leave is a real honor.

Shyama was very good looking and a good human being. She was warm and affectionate.

For other comics, it's about full-spectrum dominance, being on panel shows and having one-liners and being a good chat show guest and having a good seven minutes you can do on 'Live At The Apollo.' But I really think about these subsequent finished pieces, you know? And they don't always chop up well into one-liners and routines.

Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures.

As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

Run from being good. Chase being great.

As I look back on it now, I'm thinking of one very vital factor, that one factor being that I was afforded the luxury - the luxurious opportunity - of finally being able to put something back. As a child growing up, it was his [Frank Sinatra] efforts that put a roof over my head, food in my stomach, clothes on my back, and that got me an education and sent me to the doctor when I was sick. All those things a child could benefit from parent. I did not want to be in a position where all I had ever done was take, take, take, frankly.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

The Rated-R Superstar was usually a vile and horrible human being who had some moments of being a good guy.

I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

It is no good being good in halves of games or in one game and not in the next one.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

For me, being in someone's good books is to keep your behavior good.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child.

Government has not been good about being good stewards of policy.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

I feel good being a black woman; I've always felt good.

Being a good player doesn't necessarily make a good manager, that's for sure.

Ed O'Neill is just a good, good human being.

I believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self.

Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

It's just as important to be a good human being as it is to be a good actor.

Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn't good enough.

I was never good at being a boy, but I was always a good student.

The parent must not give in to his desire to try to create the child he would like to have, but rather help the child to develop--in his own good time--to the fullest, into what he wishes to be and can be, in line with his natural endowment and as the consequence of his unique life in history.

Some people are very good at being themselves and being very natural on screen or being very sexy or handsome or whatever. I like that, and I aspire towards that, but I don't know if I always make it. I work very hard.

Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years.

Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.