Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise.

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

I came from a home where everybody had a book.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

I was raised to respect women, and I really like them to be strong, independent, and have their own identity. My parents are still together, and I grew up with a lot of love, and I feel that kids imitate what they have at home.

A family is where character is formed, values are learned, ethics are created, and society preserved.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.