Danny Gokey Quotes

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

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.

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

I think there is a lot to be said for the respect that our parents had for children, and for my brothers and sisters and me at a very young age, and for exposing them to the world and what's out there.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

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

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.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

It takes a village to raise a child.

We are our children's first teachers.

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 were definitely the biggest influence in my life.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.