Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik EriksonRead
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Leaders who teach simple, inclusive principles inspire humanity to realize its true potential.
This quote emphasizes that throughout history, men have acknowledged their own potential by showing respect to the leaders who advocate for simplicity and inclusivity in guiding humanity. Erik Erikson suggests that these leaders illuminate the path towards a unified and better society by articulating basic yet profound principles that foster connection and understanding among people.
Themes
LeadershipPotentialInclusivityHumanityGuidance
In practice
Example use cases
During a leadership seminar, to emphasize the importance of inclusive leadership.
More from Erik Erikson
All quotes βNobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.
Erik EriksonRead
You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.
Erik EriksonRead
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.
Erik EriksonRead
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
Erik EriksonRead
Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.
Erik EriksonRead
Similar quotes
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
Bertrand RussellRead
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
George SantayanaRead
Whenever two particles come together, they are held by a certain attraction; and there will come a time when those particles will separate. This is the eternal law. So, wherever there is a body - either grosser or finer, either in heaven or on earth - death will overcome it.
Swami VivekanandaRead
The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.
RajneeshRead
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
John UpdikeRead
Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.
Douglas AdamsRead