Samuel Smiles Quotes

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children become like the things they love.

Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.

Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They're taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

I enjoy being a role model for kids.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

I'm a role model to a lot of kids.

There's no question that aggression can be learned through modeling. When a child sees her parent behave in a particular way, she may be tempted or even rewarded for being that way.

I truly believe children learn by examples much more than what you can teach them verbally.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

I learned much from my father just by watching his example. If I saw him hold a door open for someone, I learned to do the same. Kids always observe their parents and I always watched my daddy.

In life, we all learn from everyone. But if you like and admire someone tremendously, perhaps because they think the way you do, or like the way you think, then inevitably you do.

A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

Watch what you say and do because little eyes are watching you.