If You Promise Not To

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes; and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

Henry Ward Beecher

C haracter is what you are in the dark.

Attributed to Dwight L. Moody

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannise their teachers.

Attributed to Socrates

Habit is a sort of second nature.

Cicero

Habits of mind Cathy Marks 2003

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

Horace Mann

Habits of mind Cathy Marks 2003

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Samuel Johnson

Habits of mind Cathy Marks 2003

I am only one,

But still I am one.

I cannot do everything,

But still I can do something;

And because I cannot do everything

I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

Habits of mind – Persistence, empathy. Cathy Marks 2003

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh – at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

Habits of mind – Humour Cathy Marks 2003

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.

Bob Hope

Habits of mind – Humour Cathy Marks 2003

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Winston Churchill

Habits of mind – Persistence Cathy Marks 2003

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

Habits of mind – Thinking flexibly Cathy Marks 2003

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Attributed to James M. Barrie

Habits of mind – Wonderment and awe Cathy Marks 2003

Youth is not a matter of life – it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigour of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life.

Samuel Ullman

Habits of mind – Wonderment and awe Cathy Marks 2003