"The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning."

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Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.176, Random House

Carol S. Dweck

#Children Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Effort Quotes

“With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock CafÃ© T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be."”
“I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.”
“The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.”

Source : William Barclay (1999). “Good Tidings of Great Joy: The Birth of Jesus the Messiah”, p.36, Westminster John Knox Press
“I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.”
“The only reward in this game is winning. It's no fun to practice; it's no fun to play and lose.”
“Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.”

Source : Cyril Tourneur, Thomas Middleton, C. R. A. Foakes (1996). “The Revenger's Tragedy”, p.114, Manchester University Press
“You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.”
“Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.”

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