Zig Ziglar Quotes

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of all, you have to lead by example. You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them. So I try to be the best example I can be to them.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

We must become the people we want our children to be.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.

My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.

Children learn a lot from what their parents say. But they learn a lot more from what their parents do.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.

We need to have our children look up to real role models.