David O. McKay Quotes

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

By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.

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

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

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.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

I'm a dad with six kids, and I'm trying to teach each of them a little bit of morality.

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

The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many waking hours in the home as in the school, and 126 times as many hours in the home as in the church. Each child is, to a great degree, what he is because of the ever-constant influence of home environment and the careful or neglectful training of parents. Home is the best place for the child to learn self-control, to learn that he must submerge himself for the good of another. It is the best place in which to develop obedience, which nature and society will later demand.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

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

My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

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 need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.

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.