Haim Ginott Quotes

#1. You don't unconditionally adore your friends every moment of every day. They can unintentionally hurt your feelings, or make you mad, or upset you by doing something you consider totally inappropriate. You take what they dish out because accepting they're not perfect is part of a true friendship.

Linda Welch

#2. Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

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#3. What's one less person on the face of the Earth, anyways?

Ted Bundy

#4. I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldn't have much of a schedule, and then I'd have less motivation. It's a downward spiral that I want to avoid, so I keep the schedule sacred.

Chris Guillebeau

#5. But as someone famous (it was either Winston Churchill or Rocky Balboa) once said, 'Being brave ain't about not being punched, it's about being punched but continuing to come back to get punched over and over again'.

Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter

#6. A man going straight towards his goals overcomes difficulties and obstacles in his paths, and turns them into benefits

Sunday Adelaja

#7. While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

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#8. Only if a child feels right can he think right.

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#9. Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

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#10. Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

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#11. I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

Azita Ghanizada

#12. Parental criticism is unhelpful. It creates anger and resentment. Even worse, children who are regularly criticized learn to condemn themselves and others. They learn to doubt their own worth and to belittle the value of others. They learn to suspect people and to expect personal doom.

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#13. O for the Spirit of God to make and keep us alive unto God, faithful to our office, and useful to our generation, and clear of the blood of men's souls. Amen.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.

Bobby Moynihan

#15. A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

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#16. The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

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#17. Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

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#18. When a child hits a child, we call it aggression.
When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility.
When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault.
When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

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#19. When you share feelings with someone, or secrets, it adds a layer of complexity to even the simplest things.

Paula Stokes

#20. To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

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#21. To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.

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#22. They can't help it. They know nothing

Lois Lowry

#23. plews." Glass paid the captain his full attention. Every citizen of St. Louis knew some version of Drouillard's story, but Glass had never heard a first-person account. "He did that twice, went out and came back with a pack of plews. Last thing he said before he left the third time was,

Michael Punke

#24. A fine silver rain, like cobwebs falling.

Jenny Downham

#25. Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

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#26. Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

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#27. Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.

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#28. Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

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#29. If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

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#30. Wayne didn't even know the Earth revolved around the Sun. He thought the Sun revolved around the Earth, because it certainly looked that way. A truck sizzled

Kurt Vonnegut

#31. Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.

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#32. When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

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#33. No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Bertolt Brecht

#34. Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested in how they feel and in their point of view.

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#35. Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

#36. Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

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