Stuart Pearce Quotes

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today - the way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

When you're a kid, you don't know what's right and wrong, so you kind of just have to listen to what they tell you, and I'm just fortunate that I had people around me who knew what they were talking about.

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

The prospect of being a father made me ask myself a question. How do you know what kind of adult your child will turn out to be? And how much can you control that?

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

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

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

To be able to make statements, you need to be confident about what you think. You need to have a sense of right and wrong.

Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised. I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally.

A lot of my success, and a lot of who I am now, is because of my dad, and the way he raised me and taught me how to have a work ethic.

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

Dad had great people investing in his life at a young age. His mother, his stepfather, his Boy Scout leader, his football coach. That's where integrity is planted, like seeds that are harvested later.

I've learned a lot from my parents.