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Quotes About Parenting

"Work on your marriage and family life all the time----because Satan is."


"YOU help set the tone in our home."


"Don't ask the Lord to guide your footsteps unless you are willing to move your feet."


"If you're not heaven to be around, then you're not heaven-bound."


"REAL LOVE is not a selfish emotion."


"Do not spend money for that which is of no worth, nor your labor for that which cannot satisfy."

(2 Nephi 9:51)


"For every worry under the sun,  There is a remedy or there is none.  If there be one, hurry and find it.  If there be none, then never mind it."

Quoted by LeGrand Richards


"Let prayer, night and morning, as a family and as individuals, become a practice in which children grow while yet young.  It will bless their lives forever.  No parent in this Church can afford to neglect it."

President Gordon B. Hinckley


"In an effort to insure my children's tomorrows, I have lost their todays."

Danny Thomas


"Your attitude is contagious....Is yours worth catching?"


"Families will experience different types of stress within and without their households.  In major trauma, most families have resources that are brought together to help overcome the immediate problem.  But it's often life's daily stresses that add up, related or unrelated to a major event."


"Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible."

William George Jordan


"Blessed is the home where all have learned to face their daily problems in a Christian spirit and to disagree without being disagreeable."

Theodore F. Adams


"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love." 

Richard Brooks


"Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be."

David Bly


"If I am not happy with me, other people suffer."

Neal A. Maxwell


"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."

George Horace Lorimer


"The first step in raising positive kids is to become a positive parent."

 Zig Ziglar, book:  Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World


"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother, and the most important thing a mother can do for her children is to love their father."


"Usually our criticism of others is not because they have faults, but because their faults are different than ours."

Roger Eastman