Bruce Lipton Quotes

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) because being a parent helps us stop being a child.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up to now, this has been done. This is the greatest crime that parents have always committed against children. They go on forcing the child.

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

We must believe the things We teach our children

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

If you educate children, then they are capable of so much - you empower them, you give them choices, and you enable them to create the lives that they dream for themselves.

No child is bad from the beginning, they only imitate their atmosphere.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother

If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.

Every single child should have the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.