I leave you the best phrases of Saint John Bosco, also known as Don Bosco, a Catholic priest, educator and Italian writer who lived during the 19th century (1815 - 1888).
Don Bosco devoted practically the whole of his life to helping street children, juvenile delinquents and other disadvantaged groups of youth. As an educator, he based his methods on affection and kindness, leaving aside the traditional punishments of the time.
Later, this method would be called the Salesian Preventive System (SPS), based on the idea of making young people see the ugliness of sin and the beauty of virtue, rejecting physical punishment in exchange for dialogue and understanding.
The great work of this priest in terms of education and help to the underprivileged led to his beatification in 1934 by Pope Pius XI.
-All armies are useless if God does not assist them.
-Do good while you still have time.
-Forgive everything to others, but nothing to yourself.
-Our greatest enemy is laziness; let's fight it relentlessly.
-Don't leave for tomorrow the good you can do today. There may not be a tomorrow.
-Don't do anything today that you can be ashamed of tomorrow.
-Tolerates the imperfections of others if you want others to tolerate yours.
-Without trust or love, there can be no good education.
-Remember, God does not reward results, but effort.
-Let yourself be guided by reason and not by passion.
-Rest never means laziness.
-A lazy mind is the devil's toy.
-If you want to be loved, you must love yourself.
-The child who cannot tolerate offenses, who cannot accept punishment from his parents or superiors, is still far from knowing virtue.
-Stay away from laziness and lazy people. Carry out your tasks, since when we allow ourselves to be carried away by laziness we are in danger of sinning.
-If your parents live in faith, they will be good advisers, because they will know you well, and their advice will be good and reliable.
-Laziness teaches us all kinds of vices.
-The good Christian obeys his parents, his teachers and his superiors, because in them he sees God.
-God sometimes punishes negligent parents in this life and shortens the days of disobedient children.
-As soon as you feel the temptation, get busy with something. Laziness and modesty never go together.
-If you overcome laziness, you can overcome the temptations against purity.
-Laziness is the mother of all vices.
-Unfortunately, parents are not always good advisers, since they are not always guided by what is best for the spiritual well-being of their child.
-Experience has shown me that the well-being and happiness of a family are only guaranteed by the practice of religion.
-Don't rush into judging the actions of others.
- Obedience should have no limits.
-Do you want your colleagues to respect you? He thinks well about everyone and is willing to help others. Do this and you will always be happy.
-One must learn to obey before being able to command.
-Where humility reigns, the Grace of God will triumph.
-Be obedient to your superiors and submissive to their orders, since it is our superiors who watch over us as if they had to give explanations to God about the welfare of our souls.
-Doing what we are told makes us virtuous before God.
-Disobedience is the root of all evil.
-If you want to please Jesus and Mary, obey your guardian angel.
-The Lord always blesses those who obey his commands.
-Lord, let us try to do good in this life and in the next.
-Don't give up an inch of your authority. This must be total and absolute, or you will achieve nothing.
-If someone wants to be good, he must have a bit of courage, be ready for sacrifice, be kind and never unpleasant.
-If you are humble and patient, our Lord Jesus will give you the will and the means.
-Always try to trust other people. At least take their good intentions into account. Never reproach an evil already forgiven.
-Do good to everyone, and do not harm anyone.
-Let us serve the Lord with blessed happiness.
-Be happy, but let your happiness be real, that it emanates from a sinless conscience.
-The best guarantee against anger is to let it pass before acting.
-When one is convinced that his cause is just, he will fear nothing.
-Be brave. Don't be guided by what others think or say.
-I am not afraid of what men can do to me to tell the truth. I only fear what God would do to me if I lied.
-Don't be afraid. Our Lady will provide us with everything we need.
-Never hit a child for any reason.
-Remember that knowledge without morality is the soul of perdition.
-Never throw negligent students out of class. Be patient with their antics.
-One way to acquire knowledge is not to let time pass. Time, my children, is precious. Dedicate all the time allotted to you to study.
-Pay special attention to students with more difficulties.
-Don't let the behavior of your students during recess time affect their school grade.
-Suffer a little for God voluntarily, since He suffered a lot for you.
-In 1848 I realized that if I wanted to do any good, I had to put politics aside. Since then I have fled politics and have managed to do good without interference.
-A Catholic priest has no political principles except the Word of God.
-Always be the first to enter class and the last to leave it.
-Without trust and love there cannot be a true education.
-The teacher who is only in class is a teacher and nothing else; but if he spends recess with his students, he becomes a brother.
-Communicate and attend mass daily are the two pillars of education.
-I have always tried to enlighten the mind while ennobled the heart.
-If the youth are well educated, we will have moral order. If not, vice and disorder will prevail.
-Religion by itself can initiate and get a true education.
-Don't be stubborn or fickle. I have always found that fickle people fail in everything they do.
-Only a villain would treat an innocent priest as if he were a criminal.
-Believe me, no one can be completely happy in this world if they are not at peace with God.
-The true Christian must be willing to suffer spiritually as Jesus Christ did when he was betrayed by one of his disciples, denied by another and abandoned by all.
-Sweetness is the favorite virtue of Jesus Christ.
-Son, if you want to find peace, you must first free your heart from the devil.
-Study to be very rich, but rich in virtue, because the greatest treasure is the sacred fear of God.
-If we want to have a good society, we must concentrate all our efforts on educating young people in Christianity. Experience has taught me that caring for young people is the only way to achieve a sustainable civil society.
-I always encourage my students to use earthly knowledge as the first step towards the divine.
-Everything disappears except our gratitude. Let us pray that God will abundantly bless those who have been so good to us.
-Patience polishes many difficulties.
-Divine Providence, in time, will defend the innocent.
-Providence will decide the fate of humans and will make the oppressors of the weak pay for their sins by being oppressed by others.
-Be brave and separate your heart from earthly things.
-Do everything you can to banish the darkness from your mind and thus understand what true godliness is.
-Purify your heart through confession, and free it from everything that could have corrupted it.
-The main thing is that we carry the load on our shoulders. As we proceed, it will settle and be evenly distributed.
-Among you, young people, is where I feel good.
-When I'm away from you, I feel like something is missing.
-I can only offer you this: Bread, work and Paradise.
-Now we have to work, we will rest in paradise.
-We must make good Christians and honest citizens.
-A piece of paradise fixes everything.
-Stay always united to the Lord.
-Give me souls, the rest you can take from me.
- A good advice would accept it even if it came from the devil.
-Here we make holiness consist in always being happy.
-Health, wisdom, holiness. The three "S".
-Never say "it's not my turn" but "I'm going."
-My system is based on religion, reason and love.
-By giving culture and principles, we prevent criminals.
-Don't consider a friend who always praises you and doesn't have the courage to tell you your flaws.
-Being good does not mean never committing a fault, but knowing how to correct.
-Always be cheerful, but that your smile is sincere.
-An hour saved at dawn is an invaluable treasure in the afternoon.
-Help me save many souls, but first yours.
-You will better understand the importance of the good, if you consider that your eternal salvation or your damnation depends solely on you.
-The sweetness in speaking, in acting and in reprimanding, wins everything and everyone.
-The best work that can be done in this world is to attract lost souls to the good path, to virtue.
- Do you want to do a good thing? Educate the youth, do you want to do a divine thing? Educate the youth. Rather, it, among divine things, is most divine.
-Children should be educated with love, friendship and responsibility.
-María Auxiliadora is the one who has done everything.
-María is our guide, our teacher, our mother.
-Always try to live in the friendship of God.
-For young people we must be willing to endure any setback and fatigue.
-Young people should not only be loved, they should feel that they are loved.
-As loving parents, let us always correct with kindness.
-God sees you.
-Sadness and melancholy, outside my house.
-The general good should always be preferred to the particular. Our particular benefit should not be taken into account when it comes to the common good.
-Nothing disturbs you, whoever has God has everything.
- Only one is my wish, to see you happy in time and in eternity.
-To be good, you just need to practice three things and everything will be fine for you. What are these three things ?: Joy, study and piety.
-Education and the Virgin are the two columns that have to sustain our lives.
-What you achieve standing, thank him on your knees. What you don't get by talking, do it praying