The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.
– Stewart Stafford
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- If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child. – John SC Abbott
- The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace? – Ann Voskamp
- Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child’s needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. – Penelope Ward
- A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent. – Gary Edward Gedall
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
- True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow. If it does, it’s not confidence at all-¦it’s ego. – Charles F Glassman
- Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY – Roald Dahl
- Don’t listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it’s the only way you’ll learn. – Stewart Stafford
- Self care, self love.Self esteem, self confidence – Lailah Gifty Akita
- To have self confidence is great, but to maintain self confidence is even greater – GS Alag
- Self-confidence is not a fixed way of being. People are not born with certain levels of self-confidence, it can be acquired, and it can be lost. – Gudjon Bergmann
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- We cannot properly defend and protect ourselves without confidence. Confidence is vital, we must learn that confidence in life matters a lot. – AuliqIce
- I can’t say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough. – Jan Karon
- The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world. – Cristina Henriquez
- Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent. – Clifford Cohen
- Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. – Lao Tzu
- Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak. – Stewart Stafford
- Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others. – Stewart Stafford
- For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through. – Stewart Stafford
- There’s nothing man can imagine that nature hasn’t already created a zillion times better. – Stewart Stafford
- The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid. – Stewart Stafford
- Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality. – Stewart Stafford
- Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience. – Stewart Stafford
- Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy. – Stewart Stafford
- You need to make a decision – are you are an imitator or an innovator? – Stewart Stafford
- Success is the bridge between insanity and credibility. – Stewart Stafford
- People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring. – Stewart Stafford
- People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won’t win. – Stewart Stafford
- Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast. – Stewart Stafford
- Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow – Stewart Stafford
- A great story can change the world. – Stewart Stafford
- No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it. – Stewart Stafford
- All vampires are brothers in the brotherhood of night! – Stewart Stafford
- Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood. – Stewart Stafford
- It’s okay to write a cliché in a first draft; it sets a marker that you can get far, far away from in the rewrites. – Stewart Stafford
- We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham