Thomas S. Monson Quotes

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.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

My father never once told me he loved me. I told him I loved him only one time - that was when he was sick. It was hard, the way he showed his love. I didn't understand what he was trying to teach me. Now I know, but it came too late for him to see it. After he was gone, I realized he was trying to strengthen my mind to make me better.

All the valuable lessons I learned from my dad, little questions to big, and that's what I want my children to do.

Mum and Dad had high expectations of us as human beings - it wasn't just about education. It's a fantastic way to go about parenting, and I aspire to that.

My parents have a great role in inculcating values in me.

I learn from my family. And it's not like I learn from them on the sets only.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put the money on the table and say Mea, here is some money for insurance and food and we always had that little extra for Friday night pizza at Barcelona's.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.

I've learned great lessons from my parents for things on the court and off. I really look up to them.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

I've learned a lot from my parents.

My parents never sat down to teach me anything; they lived exemplary life to set a lesson for me.

Everyone loves to praise me on my character, which I'm so thankful for. But that's a true testament speaking to my parents, how they raised me.

I was lucky that my parents had supported and guided me with a positive framework.

Basically, I've always raised my kids that people learn from their mistakes, and every father wants their kids to be better than them.

It wasn't rich, it was hard-working, but I give thanks daily for the kind of upbringing I had, and for the values my parents brought to their own relationship and to their children. They wanted my brother and me to find out what we were best at and make the most of it.