Mark Tobey Quotes

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

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

Tell the people not to depend on me anymore.

When charity perpetuates dependency and subordination, it is unjust…. You can help desperately needy people in ways that disempower them and turn them into permanent clients, or you can help them in ways that promote their independence and enable them to help themselves.

I think about that with kids - you want to do everything for them, but you realize if you do everything, and you make it easy on them, they won't learn anything, and then they will walk around life needing their mamas all the time, and that isn't attractive.

I have always told my daughters not to be dependent on anyone in any capacity.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

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.

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

Those who ask for help are often those who have failed to do something for themselves.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

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

That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.