Steve Largent Quotes

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

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.

My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.

My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

My dad was in my life, and he was actually a very positive influence on me in my life. He was always there. He was a great dad. But my parents divorced when I was 5, so I grew up in a single-parent home.

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

I was raised the right way, my parents did a great job, I owe them everything. Without them, I'm not the man I am today.

My little one's only 12 and I miss seeing him grow up and trying to form him and mould him the way I'd like him to him to turn out, which is something like his dad!