Melania Trump Quotes

All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.

It's important to let kids be themselves and to let them make mistakes. Self-discovery goes a long way.

It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.

Coach Smart, he's given me so much freedom to sort of grow into who I was.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

My mother set us to an activity and let us be.

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

As a child, I was always getting into risky situations with the potential to hurt myself, but mum and dad never stopped me doing what I wanted to do, and they assumed that if I fell and hurt myself, I would learn from that and maybe not do it again.

I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things.

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

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.