Simon Sinek Quotes

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in 'Life Goes On,' and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think - I never had to do anything for myself.

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a parent means for themselves.

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.