Alice Miller Quotes

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

Treating everyone with dignity and respect is of utmost importance to me and are values we instill and take very seriously at Mylan.

I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story.

My mother always told me never offend a man's ego and never hurt a woman's emotions - an advice I will not forget to pass on to my daughter.

The biggest and the most important thing my mother told me is to be a good actor you first need to be a really good human being and an honest person.

I do agree that Justin has integrity, honesty and amazing judgment, but sometimes I think he's just maybe too sensitive, and that's kind of scary.

Our organisation and culture is based on professionalism and values. I think my children reflect both.

I'm just going to be as honest as I can with my children and really try to build their character to be as strong as ours is.

I'm quite tactful, actually. I worry about whether people are all right. With my friends, obviously, conversations are quite free and uncensored, but I would never enjoy making someone feel uncomfortable at all.