Dan Byrd Quotes

I never get in trouble.

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

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

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

You guys got big uglies, fuumm-bull, and 'Whoa, Nellie.' What I got was, 'Lindsey, why are the trash cans still out front?' 'This homework needs more work,' and the inevitable was, 'How fast were you really going?'

I like structure, and I like discipline and people doing the right thing.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

I refuse to lie to children.

My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.

My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.