Zig Ziglar Quotes

To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life.

Woory about building a kid who is good, not a kid with good self-esteem.

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Always praise your kid even if he/she is unresponsive to learning. By insulting them and putting them down, you will only push them away and make them feel inadequate around other kids. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into swans, there are rebellious kids that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.

You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him more. Appreciate what is good in him rather than emphasizing what is bad. Talk about his goodness. Let the whole neighborhood know how nice and beautiful a boy he is. You may be able to shift his energy from the bad side to the good side, from the dark side to the lighted side, because you will make him aware that this is the way to get respect, this is the way to be honored. And you will prevent him from doing anything that makes him fall down in people's eyes.

Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

I will encourage my kids in everything that life has to offer.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.

I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

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

You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.

It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!

Children succeed when grown-ups care about them.

I found this deer toy that poops out candy. And so if I say, 'Cree, you have to go to bed right now. You will get a candy.' We've named the pooping deer 'Gus.'... He gets a jelly bean. And it works. Positive reinforcement is the way to go. I'm learning things like that which help me be a better parent.

Our kids come first, and we really put them at the top of our priority list.

Definitely I feel my kids played a big role in why I was so successful in fighting.

I love each of my kids in unique ways and try to meet their different needs so they can thrive and be their personal best.