Don Cheadle Quotes

Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do.

Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

Ultimately, my daughter is not going to learn from what I do, not from what I say. For better or for worse. I see that everyday.

It's important to teach your kids the value of being active by setting a good example.

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.

I think as parents you want to at least try to provide a good example to your kids. So yeah, I feel like a complete hypocrite if I'm telling my son to try new things and not be afraid and I'm shying away from doing a dancing show for Pete's sake. On some level, you're at least being a good example for your kids.

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.

We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.

All the kids that I grew up with, in an almost idyllic environment - I've got to tell you, it was so wonderful - they've gone on and they're doctors and Ph.D.'s and everybody has a four-year college degree. None of our parents, I think, had a four-year degree.

I mean, I don't have any more words.I've tried to do the best I can to lead by my actions in an appropriate way without recrimination or anything like that, because I'm a very happy person. I don't think I need to say any more than what I've demonstrated.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.

I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

I think values are really, really important, but I also think that too many values are just words.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.