Bedrock Quote by Jeffrey R. Holland

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

— Leon Kass

To lead or to parent means not being liked sometimes.

— Shonda Rhimes

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

— Mark Twain

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To lead others is to help them change their thoughts, beliefs and actions for the better.

— Jim Rohn

By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs…

— Cheryl Richardson

“Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected.…

— Kelly Bartlett

“Kant provides a more helpful answer. For him, these first semblances of virtue can be explained in terms of discipline, in other words, as…

— Andre Compte-Sponville

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order…

— William Hazlitt

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden,…

— Robert Jeffress

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of…

— Maria Montessori

We were all born to lead.

— Sheri L. Dew