Children Quote by Hannah More

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

— Hannah More

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended… Idleness as such is by…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“idleness is the root of all evil.”

— Anthony Trollope

The principle trap that the devil sets for young people is idleness.

— John Bosco

Children are the root of all evil… Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

— William John Locke

“To live in idleness, even if you have the means, is not only injurious to yourself, but a species of fraud upon the community,…

— William A. Alcott

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we…

— William Cowper

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

— Samuel Johnson

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

— Maria Montessori

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then,…

— Carlo Collodi

Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they…

— Bram Stoker