Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

I'm just going to be as honest as I can with my children and really try to build their character to be as strong as ours is.

My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

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.

You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

We will build men of character.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

When you're talking to potential professional athletes, I really like to talk about the fact that even though you're a great athlete, that doesn't make you a good person. And if you can build that foundation first, everything else usually follows suit.

I like having fun, but the most important thing is to be as good a person as you can be.

As parents, we teach our children to do what's right.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

What Lisa and I want is for our kids to grow up to be good people.

My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to give my best performance.

My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children…

Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining from all acts of improvidence which can involve him in distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing into the element in which he cannot breathe, as of lying or cheating or stealing.

If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

Throughout our lives, we develop our character consciously or unconsciously. In your journey to a life beyond amazing, you'll learn to develop your character in ways that bring remarkable rewards.

Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R’s,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.

The future success of our Nation depends on our children's ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices. To help them reach their full potential and live with integrity and pride, we must teach our children to be kind, responsible, honest, and self-disciplined. These important values are first learned in the family, but all of our citizens have an obligation to support parents in the character education of our children