Childlike Spirit Quotes

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.

You gotta have a little kid in you to play football.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

Work hard, love what you do, put your best foot forward and never forget the kid in you.

I'll always have a kid in me.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from God, so long are you young.