Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of all, you have to lead by example. You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them. So I try to be the best example I can be to them.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in them in childhood. When children learn they will get the most attention and love through doing constructive things, they will tend to stop doing destructive things. Most important of all, remember that children learn through example. No matter what you say it is what you do that will have an influence on them.

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

I have always tried to have a message, not to be a preacher, but a message that shows it's better to be a good guy than a bad guy, and I try to make it clear that doing the right thing is more attractive than not.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

We must become the people we want our children to be.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.