"Parents can only advise their children or..." - Quote by Anne Frank
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
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“The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.”
“One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.”
“Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.”
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“Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?”
“Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.”
“The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.”