Gloria Estefan Quotes

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

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.

Children learn a lot from what their parents say. But they learn a lot more from what their parents do.

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.

I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Example is the best precept.

I've learned something about kids - they don't do what you say; they do what you do.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

I like to lead by example. I like to lead by my actions.

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

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.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

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.

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

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.

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

There is nothing like the quiet power of example.