“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”
The idea behind the quotation
Parents continue to grow as people, and children learn from watching how their parents live, so parents should model the ambitions they encourage.