Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Quotes

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

Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.

I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

Although children are good and well born, vice will blight them if they are not well educated.

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.

Teach the Scriptures to your children daily, discipline your children consistently, and love your children unconditionally. If you do these things, you will have acted biblically.

I am raising my children with the Christian faith and life lessons I was taught. I am equipping them with all of the information and guidance as a parent and hope they will make sound decisions. The most important thing is to teach kids to stand firm in what they believe and not be swayed by detractors no matter what the subject matter.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

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

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

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.

Now that I have a daughter, I've been thinking about how I'll define beauty to her. I watched a video of Kendall when she was three, and she was putting on makeup. I don't know how I feel about that. But my daughter already watches me do it. When do you let them start wearing it? I don't know yet.

I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.