The best way to encourage your children is to let them…

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be - not what you nag them to be.

— Scudder Parker

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

— Anthony of Padua

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

— Saint Francis de Sales

The chances of a child coming through as I did... the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children…

— Shelley Fabares

We want to actively encourage children to continue with their development.

— Jo Frost

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children

— Jim George

“Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living something else?…

— Dan Pearce

“The promise of a reward can help encourage children to keep at a hard task. Offer something fun each time the child takes time…

— Sybrina Durant

When we begin to know ourselves in an open and self-supportive way, we take the first step to encourage our children to know themselves

— Daniel J. Siegel

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

— Mick Jagger

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

— Dave Barry

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many…

— Bill James

Encourage your children to read. Reading can unlock the keys to a whole world of information. Parents are teachers, both by example and by…

— Anonymous