Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children. Show all posts

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Post #3198

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.
—Anne Frank

Monday, August 05, 2019

Post #2886

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Post #2473

Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.
—Jean de La Bruyère

Friday, September 01, 2017

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Post #2387

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Post #2259

Whatever parent gives his children good instruction, and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand, and poison in the other.
—John Balguy

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Post #2258

With children we must mix gentleness with firmness; they must not always have their own way, but they must not always be thwarted. If we never have headaches through rebuking them, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. If you yield up your authority once, you will hardly ever get it again.
—Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Post #1667

Frustrations and denials which seem to youth cruel and unfair often are important equipment for life.
—Bruce Barton

Monday, October 20, 2014

Post #1666

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
—Ellen Key

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Post #1536

The cold iron of neglect is sharper to a child's sensitive nature than any alteration of harshness and affection.
—Mrs. Annie Edwards

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Post #1093

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
—Frank A. Clark

Saturday, September 01, 2012

Post #1049

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
—John Ruskin

Saturday, January 07, 2012

Post #824

What its children become, that will the community become.
—Suzannea LaFollette

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Post #714

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
—Leon R. Yankwich

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Post #689

The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world.  The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life.
—Carl Gustav Jung

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Post #118

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are.  Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty.
—George Bernard Shaw

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Post #37

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Post #26

The future is purchased by the present.
—Samuel Johnson

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Post #15

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
—Pablo Picasso

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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