Frank A. Clark Quotes

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

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

When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense of self-reliance, their ability to assess and mitigate risk, and their sense of accomplishment.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

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 was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

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.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

I know how to look after myself.

My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.

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.

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.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.