47 Quotes About Being a Brat

Having the ability to adapt to a changing learning environment will ensure you can reach out to every child that needs help. These quotes about being a brat highlight some of the behaviors of the more troublesome kids.

“A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.”

“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”

“As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I’ve been traveling.”

“But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.”

“By a lot of people’s standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.”

“I always wanted to have that brother-sister rivalry type of stuff. So now I’m happy that at least Dream and King won’t be the only child being super spoiled.”

“I don’t know, maybe I’m overly paranoid that they’re going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.”

“I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.”

“I hate committing myself to anything. It’s probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I’m probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.”

“I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn’t take advantage of what was happening”

“I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.”

“I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don’t have to think about anything but skating. You’re just plain spoiled.”

“I was spoiled growing up in the 1970s because magazines were publishing the photographs of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin without compromise. You really felt that sense of freedom through their images.”

“I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.”

“I’m kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what’s around the corner.”

“It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.”

“It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.”

“It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.”

“Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don’t really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.”

“Let’s be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there’s a good reason for this. Movies don’t portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. ”

“Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.”

“Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn’t a brat bone in their body so I haven’t done anything that bad.”

“Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.”

“Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”

“My dad’s probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that’s not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.”

“Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.”

“Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.”

“Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.”

“People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don’t want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.”

“Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.”

“Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.”

“Spare the rod and spoil the child.”

“The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country’s ever produced.”

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”

“The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.”

“The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.”

“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.”

“The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.”

“The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.”

“There’s a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn’t want to raise kids like that.”

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

“We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.”

“We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.”

“We were spoiled in many ways, but we were always taught to understand the value of the dollar. If there was something we wanted, we had to earn it. Even in college, we were very fiscally responsible. I had 300 bucks a month; anything I wanted beyond that, I had to work for.”

“What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. Spoiled children do not learn the must.”

“You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

Having a strong and stable foundation in life is just one part of being raised successfully with good behavior.