Denis Waitley (1933) American writer
Variant: The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence
“… besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.”
Source: The Power of One
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From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale <br class="br">Original: (it) Credere in te stesso è il regalo più grande che puoi fare alla tua vita.
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“A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it.”
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Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned (1958) wife of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Speech at Jazz at Lincoln Centre; quoted on official website http://www.mozabintnasser.qa/en/Pages/ArticlePreview.aspx?ArticleGuid=de04d373-9eaa-46c8-9f4d-033ff7b8fe1f&Type=Speech# (May 16 2013)
“There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult.”
Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & academic
Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 1 : The Rules of the Game, § 8 : Conclusions : Motor Rules and the Two Kinds of Respect <!-- p. 85 -->
Context: In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. … There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.
“Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.”
Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God
Molchanie (1982)
