George Muller Quotes

Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.

The prospect of being a father made me ask myself a question. How do you know what kind of adult your child will turn out to be? And how much can you control that?

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes; they'll do things they regret, like we all have.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

Although children are good and well born, vice will blight them if they are not well educated.

I had my kids convinced it was a civics lesson rather than child abuse.

Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.

Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity - together with my wife Sophie - to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids.

I'm doing my best to raise my son and give him a nurturing, loving, and caring environment so he can grow up and be the best version of himself.

I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.