Chanakya Quotes

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you've brought into the world, and for whose nurture and care you're responsible.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.