life skills quotes

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

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

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.