Paul Tough Quotes

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

Teach your kids emotional intelligence. Help them become more evolved than you are. Explain that, for instance, not everyone will like them.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Other species help children develop empathy.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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

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

As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best, regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them.

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.