Zig Ziglar Quotes

Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity - together with my wife Sophie - to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids.

Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

Woory about building a kid who is good, not a kid with good self-esteem.

Every child should be taught to be a caring adult and be given an opportunity to serve their communities.

The child … must not learn religion before he knows morality

Why should we not teach our children those principles, upon which we ourselves have thought and acted? Ought we to instill into their tender minds a theory, especially if unfounded, which is contradictory to our own practice, built on the most solid foundation? Why should we reduce them to the cruel dilemma of condemning, either those principles which they have been taught to believe, or those persons whom they have been taught to revere?

I'm raising three children. I'm teaching my kids what it means, the Golden Rule, to treat people like you want to be treated.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

I'm just going to be as honest as I can with my children and really try to build their character to be as strong as ours is.

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.

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.