Barbara Coloroso Quotes

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

No one is too young to do the right thing.

It doesn't matter if I've been wronged - I still have a responsibility to use my influence in a way that never causes harm.

At the end of the day, you have to do what you think is right and be human.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

The future success of our Nation depends on our children's ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices. To help them reach their full potential and live with integrity and pride, we must teach our children to be kind, responsible, honest, and self-disciplined. These important values are first learned in the family, but all of our citizens have an obligation to support parents in the character education of our children

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

Hold yourselves accountable before you are held accountable.

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

Spanking doesn't lead to anything in the child, other than anger, a sense of frustration and humiliation. And parents can do better. I'm not saying it should be against the law but parents can do better.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.