Adversity Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Children can be too hard on their parents, until they learn themselves how hard life can be.”

— David Clement-Davies

“By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.”

— Mardy Grothe

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they…

— Andrew Solomon

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

— Pete Seeger

“People say parenting is the hardest job in the world –they’re wrong –growing up is. We all just forget how hard it was.”

— John Tiffany

Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're…

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Every parent wants their child to do better than they do.

— Steve Doocy

'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they…

— Billy Joel

“effective parents expect their children to rise to life’s challenges (as you know, there are plenty!) and to respect the rules and limits that…

— Thomas W. Phelan

All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that change is…

— Shukla Bose

There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a…

— Clive Owen