Jim Pattison 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.

Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

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.

When you are bringing up your kids, you hope you have given them some sense of right and wrong, a sense of good and bad.

I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

My parents taught me the importance of telling the truth no matter what.

As parents, we teach our children to do what's right.

My dad was my role model; he always did the right thing.

I know I wouldn't be a New York Yankee if it wasn't for my mom: the guidance she gave me as a kid growing up, knowing the difference from right and wrong, how to treat people and how to go the extra mile and put in extra work, all that kind of stuff.

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.

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

My father instilled in me the need to behave correctly on and off the pitch.

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

My mother taught me right and wrong, and the right is the only way to go.

You just don't pick up family values, unless your parents teach you and let you know exactly what they expect.

My grandfather played a big part in raising me, and he taught me how to be a gentleman. Since he first told me those types of things when I was 13 years old, I've taken all those types of lessons from him to heart. I'd like to keep that with me.

My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Ethics to me is very important.

If I have taught my sons anything in life, it is to have integrity - to always tell the truth, and I believe they have.