Brigham Young Quotes

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Not every artist is a role model.

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

There's no crime in being a poor role model.

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

The most powerful moral influence is example.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

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

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

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

I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.

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

I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

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.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

While I was thus carrying out my obligations, I never did anything with which my conscience would have to find fault

If you're glued together right and honorable, you will succeed. Get in there and get rid of stupidities and avoid bad people. Try teaching that to your grandchildren. The best way is by example. Fix yourself.

I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.

Make sure that your children don't follow you if you go to sin.

What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

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.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.