Instill Quotes

• Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

  Sonny Perdue

  Teacher, Encouragement, Art

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• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

  Joe Baca

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Daddy, Work Ethic, Way

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Happy

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• Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

  James Dobson

  Children, Father, Home

  James C. Dobson (1991). “How to Raise Children That Love the Lord”, Chariot Family Pub

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• It's very important to instill values in children.

  James Van Praagh

  Children, Important, Values

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill.

  Jeff Bryant

  Children, Integrity, People

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• Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

  John Maeda

  Design, Enough, Novel

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non reductive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. But we would still be left with Nietzsche's preposterous mustache which instills great anguish and skepticism in the brain, which leads (as it did in his case) to utter madness. I suggest we go to Paris instead.

  Maira Kalman

  Paris, Mustache, Brain

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• Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God’s love, God’s voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.

  Donald Miller

  Love Is, Order, Voice

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• We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Selfish

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• One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure

  Howard Schultz

  Insecure, Feelings, Fundamentals

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

  Tennessee Williams

  Hawthorne, Bunch, Reverence

  Tennessee Williams (1953). “A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts”, p.39, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Sophie held the [hand]cuffs higher, hopint to instill some sense of shame, if not in him, then at least in herself. One look at him and she wanted him again. "I found them in the bed." "That makes sense," Phin said. "That's where I lost them." "I'd ask what you were doing with them," Sophie said, trying not to sound bitchy, "but I probably don't want to know, do I?" "Sure you do. It was exciting and different and depraved." Phin nodded toward the stairs. "Go put them someplace we can find them, and I'll show you later.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Hands, Trying, Bed

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• A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

  Rick Riordan

  Leadership, Despair, Troops

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• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

  Hal Borland

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Giving Up, Fun

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• I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

  Cat Cora

  Children, Believe, Home

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• The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Children, Son

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• I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

  Shimon Peres

  Iran, Young Generation, People

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• Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

  Brooke Shields

  Confidence, Eight, Scary

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• Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Book, School

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• One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Jobs, Smell

  "JACK WELCH: 'If You Have A Reputation As A Big, Stiff Bureaucracy, You're Stuck'" by Kim Bhasin, www.businessinsider.com. February 27, 2012.

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• I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Reality, People

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• As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Lying, Love Is, Mind

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Feb 14, 2016

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