Top 6 Stanley Greenspan Quotes (2025 Update)

Stanley Greenspan Quote: “Empathy comes from being empathized with.”

1. “Empathy comes from being empathized with.”

2. “Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they are liked. It is caring enough about them to provide good, clear rules for their protection.”

— Stanley Greenspan

3. “If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children’s emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children growing up or parents having to struggle in situations which could not possibly nourish healthy growth.”

— Stanley Greenspan

4. “Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.”

— Stanley Greenspan

5. “If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test reality, regulate her impulses, stabilize her moods, integrate her feelings and actions, focus her concentration and plan.”

— Stanley Greenspan

6. “Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake of thinking a contrived, pretend drama can substitute for real interpersonal comfort in dealing with important emotional issues.”

— Stanley Greenspan

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