Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Meaning of the quote
Parents can help guide you and give you good advice, but the final decisions you make and the person you become are up to you. Your character and the choices you make are in your own hands.
About Anne Frank
Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. Her diary, which was published after her death, became one of the most well-known accounts of the Holocaust and has been the basis for numerous plays and films.
More quotes from Anne Frank
It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
No one has ever become poor by giving.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
I live in a crazy time.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
How true Daddy’s words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)