Jack Canfield Quotes

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.'

I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

Your kids want to know that you can see them and that you care and we're fortunate enough to be able to do that.

Both of my parents have loved and supported me from my very first strides.

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

I love to hug my children. I love to tell them I love them every day before they leave for school or before I leave for work. And I think that's the most important thing you can do as a father is to make sure that your children know they're loved.

If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day - that's the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That's the only reason I'm OK right now.

My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.

If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.

I would want to know if, at 15, if my daughter loves me the way she does right now. And if she's proud of me, just because I want to be a good example for her, and seeing her grow and how much she loves Daddy saying 'Daddy, te quiero mucho,' which means 'I like you a lot,' those are the things that melt my heart.