Charles Best Quotes

Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you're patient and you understand where they're coming from, and if you are consistent, they will be fine. They teach you to give your full attention.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

The more you love a person, you more you should respect that person. Encourage her to be the best she can be, and you'll both be happier.

My sister travels with me, and she's the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.

My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

In the end, if you can't trust each other, what's the point of being married?

I have to give him and I have to have 100 percent of his confidence…. If I do not have his confidence, someone else should be chief of staff.

No commission created in this town has automatic credibility. You have to earn it.

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.