Michelle Obama Quotes

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

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

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.

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

As parents, we must be mindful that our actions are matching our words.

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

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

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

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

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

I never asked my children to do something I didn't show them that I could also do.

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.

Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

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

Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.

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

In terms of role modelling for younger kids, I never really censor myself.

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