"We can seldom get our children to..." - Quote by Colin Powell
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
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“Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no. That's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?”
“Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.”
“Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.”
More on Parenting
“The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.”
“I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."”
“If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.”
More on Influence
“Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.”
“Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.”
“Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.”