Sunny Dispositions and Sweet Tempers—Teach your children from the cradle to practice self-denial and self-control. Teach them to enjoy the beauties of nature, and in useful employment to exercise all the powers of mind and body. Bring them up to have sound constitutions and good morals, to have sunny dispositions and sweet tempers. Teach them that to yield to temptation is weak and wicked; to resist is noble and manly.—Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 127 (1913). {1MCP 169.3}

Et strålende gemyt og et lifligt temperament. - Undervis dine børn fra vuggen at udøve selvfornægtelse og selvkontrol. Undervis dem at nyde naturens skønheder, og bruge alle sindets og kroppens kræfter i nyttig beskæftigelse. Lær dem, at det er svagt og ondt at give efter for fristelse; modstås dette er ædelt og mandigt. - CT 127 (1913).