Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

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.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

Guys who feel like it makes you a man to make babies, they're completely misguided. It makes you a man to be a father. And I'm not moralising about marriage or anything. I understand that people split up, and marriages don't work out, and people do the best they can. But if you're going to not be there from the very beginning, then don't do it.

I took being a mom very seriously.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.

I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it all themselves. The parents can't come home from work and turn on the TV. That's not being a good parent.

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

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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

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.