Samantha Power Quotes

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

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?

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.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

I was taught some very good life lessons and morals as a young kid growing up.

Growing up a good person, it's a lot harder than you'd think.

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 brought me up to be a good person.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

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

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.

We teach our kids to be fair and things like that and if you make a mistake you apologize for it.

My parents did an excellent job of bringing me up with values.

My parents raised me right.

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

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.