Edgar Guest 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.

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

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

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

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

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.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

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.

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.

A lot of people preach and talk, but I think the only way to preach is to actually do things.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

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

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

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Example is the best precept.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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.

I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.