Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

I feel like being a good model for my children is something that I do take seriously.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

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

I may never know what type of effect I have on my sons, just like Granny never knew the effect she had on me. So I just try and make the best decisions that I can, be the best father that I can.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

I want to have an impact on my son.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

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.

Children learn a lot from what their parents say. But they learn a lot more from what their parents do.

My dad was a fabulous role model. I wanted to be just like him.

Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.

I think my dad is definitely my biggest role model, personally, just in my day-to-day life.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

I was lucky to be my dad's daughter, and I'm forever grateful to have Jann Arden as a strong role model in my life.

I've got to be a guide to my kids. Nobody else is going to do it.

I learned much from my father just by watching his example. If I saw him hold a door open for someone, I learned to do the same. Kids always observe their parents and I always watched my daddy.

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.