Joseph Joubert Quotes

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

By learning to yield to the loving authority of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

Those who know the least obey the best.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.

You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

I want to have a bunch of kids so I can boss them around.

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.