Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.

If parents would have their children blessed at church and school, let them beware they give their children no corrupt examples at home by any carelessness, profaneness or ungodliness. Otherwise, parents will do them more harm at home than both pastors and schoolmasters can do them good abroad.

As the family goes, so go the children.

I don’t want the Government to teach my kids’ family values.

The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive.

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.

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.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

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

India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

In vain are Schools, Accademics and universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years…How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality and Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn that their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.

Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.

I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

The drive was brief and the conversation limited, but oh, what a legacy of love! Father never read to me from the Bible about the good Samaritan. Rather, he took me with him and Uncle Elias in that old 1928 Oldsmobile and provided a living lesson I have always remembered.

There's nothing more damning in life than a child calmly and coldly saying, 'Are you aware that you're teaching me bad habits?'

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

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I have often said it is the mother who forms the mind of the child. Take men anywhere, at sea, sinking with their ship, dying in battle, lying down in death almost under any circumstances, and the last thing they think if, the last word they say is "mother." Such is the influence of woman.

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.

All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.