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Top 25 Maxwell King Quotes (2024 Update)

Maxwell King Quote: “I’m very much interested in choices, and what it is and who it is that enable us human beings to make the choices we make all though our lives. What choices lead to ethnic cleansing? What choices lead to healing? What choices lead to the destruction of the environment, the erosion of the Sabbath, suicide bombings, or teenagers shooting teachers? What choices encourage heroism in the midst of chaos?”6.”

1. “I’m very much interested in choices, and what it is and who it is that enable us human beings to make the choices we make all though our lives. What choices lead to ethnic cleansing? What choices lead to healing? What choices lead to the destruction of the environment, the erosion of the Sabbath, suicide bombings, or teenagers shooting teachers? What choices encourage heroism in the midst of chaos?”6.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “The white spaces between words are more important than the text, because they give you time to think about what you’ve read.”23 All his career, he emphasized the importance of listening; he felt that silence is a gift, as is what he called “graceful receiving.”

2. “The white spaces between words are more important than the text, because they give you time to think about what you’ve read.”23 All his career, he emphasized the importance of listening; he felt that silence is a gift, as is what he called “graceful receiving.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Good people aren’t always good. They just try to be.”

3. “Good people aren’t always good. They just try to be.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

4. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “What a difference one person can make in the life of another. It’s almost as if he had said, ‘I like you just the way you are.’ – Fred Rogers.”

5. “What a difference one person can make in the life of another. It’s almost as if he had said, ‘I like you just the way you are.’ – Fred Rogers.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Young “Freddy” became a focused young man, and then an adult who drew on the very sensitivity that had once seemed a weakness.”

6. “Young “Freddy” became a focused young man, and then an adult who drew on the very sensitivity that had once seemed a weakness.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “In a now-famous Rogers dictum, delivered in speeches and in his books, he advises adults: “Please, think of the children first. If you ever have anything to do with their entertainment, their food, their toys, their custody, their day care, their health, their education – please listen to the children, learn about them, learn from them.”

7. “In a now-famous Rogers dictum, delivered in speeches and in his books, he advises adults: “Please, think of the children first. If you ever have anything to do with their entertainment, their food, their toys, their custody, their day care, their health, their education – please listen to the children, learn about them, learn from them.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “To Fred Rogers, every child required special attention, because every child needed assurance that he or she was someone who mattered.”

8. “To Fred Rogers, every child required special attention, because every child needed assurance that he or she was someone who mattered.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Our job in life,” he said at a graduation ceremony at Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania, early in his career, in 1969, “is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is – that each of us has something that no one else has – or ever will have – something inside which is unique to all time. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness, and to provide ways of developing its expression.”

9. “Our job in life,” he said at a graduation ceremony at Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania, early in his career, in 1969, “is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is – that each of us has something that no one else has – or ever will have – something inside which is unique to all time. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness, and to provide ways of developing its expression.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “The directions weren’t written in invisible ink on the back of my diploma. They came ever so slowly for me; and ever so firmly I trusted that they would emerge. All I can say is, it’s worth the struggle to discover who you really are.”

10. “The directions weren’t written in invisible ink on the back of my diploma. They came ever so slowly for me; and ever so firmly I trusted that they would emerge. All I can say is, it’s worth the struggle to discover who you really are.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news,” Rogers had told his young viewers, “my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.”

11. “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news,” Rogers had told his young viewers, “my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Fred Rogers never – ever – let the urgency of work or life impede his focus on what he saw as basic human values: integrity, respect, responsibility, fairness and compassion, and of course his signature value, kindness.”

12. “Fred Rogers never – ever – let the urgency of work or life impede his focus on what he saw as basic human values: integrity, respect, responsibility, fairness and compassion, and of course his signature value, kindness.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Children are starving for story, the kind that builds on hope, the kind that echos for a lifetime. We need story in our lives, not dreams based on greed.”

13. “Children are starving for story, the kind that builds on hope, the kind that echos for a lifetime. We need story in our lives, not dreams based on greed.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life. – FRED ROGERS.”

14. “It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life. – FRED ROGERS.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Fred was deeply wounded when one of those friends decided that it offended his sense of ethics to socialize with people who came from a background of privilege and wealth. He dropped Fred, which, to Joanne’s annoyance, further worried Fred about his family’s money.”

15. “Fred was deeply wounded when one of those friends decided that it offended his sense of ethics to socialize with people who came from a background of privilege and wealth. He dropped Fred, which, to Joanne’s annoyance, further worried Fred about his family’s money.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Children raised on the ethic of the ‘Neighborhood’, though less likely to make millions on an innovative hedge-fund scheme on Wall Street, are more likely to grow up with the kind of social and emotional understanding that can lead to a happy balanced life.”

16. “Children raised on the ethic of the ‘Neighborhood’, though less likely to make millions on an innovative hedge-fund scheme on Wall Street, are more likely to grow up with the kind of social and emotional understanding that can lead to a happy balanced life.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Academics who’ve studied Rogers’s work often marvel at how young children calm down, pay attention, and learn so much from this television production – and how they remain calm and centered for some time after watching The Neighborhood. Rogers himself put great care into the pacing of the program to help children slow down and steady themselves.”

17. “Academics who’ve studied Rogers’s work often marvel at how young children calm down, pay attention, and learn so much from this television production – and how they remain calm and centered for some time after watching The Neighborhood. Rogers himself put great care into the pacing of the program to help children slow down and steady themselves.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “His lesson is as simple and direct as Fred was: Human kindness will always make life better.”

18. “His lesson is as simple and direct as Fred was: Human kindness will always make life better.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Almost from the time he arrived in Hanover, New Hampshire, the gangly, somewhat nerdy, and idealistic young Fred Rogers felt out of place. By the time the bitter New Hampshire winter set in – lots of mornings below zero – he was miserable. Fred and Dartmouth were a mismatch from the first.”

19. “Almost from the time he arrived in Hanover, New Hampshire, the gangly, somewhat nerdy, and idealistic young Fred Rogers felt out of place. By the time the bitter New Hampshire winter set in – lots of mornings below zero – he was miserable. Fred and Dartmouth were a mismatch from the first.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “We can’t always know what’s behind a child’s question. But if we let a child know we respect the question, we’re letting that child know that we respect him or her. What a powerful way to say, ‘I care about you!’ – Fred Rogers.”

20. “We can’t always know what’s behind a child’s question. But if we let a child know we respect the question, we’re letting that child know that we respect him or her. What a powerful way to say, ‘I care about you!’ – Fred Rogers.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “You know, I loved children, I loved drama, I loved music, I loved whimsy, I loved puppetry.” – Fred Rogers.”

21. “You know, I loved children, I loved drama, I loved music, I loved whimsy, I loved puppetry.” – Fred Rogers.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Many a young man has been led by such insecurities away from his passions toward something seemingly more secure.”

22. “Many a young man has been led by such insecurities away from his passions toward something seemingly more secure.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “The conversations in poor families tended to be more perfunctory – “don’t do that, come here, put on your coat” – while in middle-class families they were richer, more discursive, and exploratory, employing a dramatically larger number of words. The result: The poor children in the study, published in 1995, had little more than a quarter of the vocabulary of the middle-class kids by the time they got to public school, and they arrived at kindergarten far behind and far less ready to learn.”

23. “The conversations in poor families tended to be more perfunctory – “don’t do that, come here, put on your coat” – while in middle-class families they were richer, more discursive, and exploratory, employing a dramatically larger number of words. The result: The poor children in the study, published in 1995, had little more than a quarter of the vocabulary of the middle-class kids by the time they got to public school, and they arrived at kindergarten far behind and far less ready to learn.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Mister Rogers took his viewers on this little journey to show that even in the face of death, things move ahead. That’s the essential message as he sits by the fish grave. Rogers never told grieving children that everything will be all right: no such simplistic reassurances. Instead he shared his feelings about death and loss, and the extraordinary truth, reaffirmed repeatedly throughout the program, that life does go on.”

24. “Mister Rogers took his viewers on this little journey to show that even in the face of death, things move ahead. That’s the essential message as he sits by the fish grave. Rogers never told grieving children that everything will be all right: no such simplistic reassurances. Instead he shared his feelings about death and loss, and the extraordinary truth, reaffirmed repeatedly throughout the program, that life does go on.”

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Maxwell King Quote: “Fred Rogers took profound stock of his feelings to find meaning, often spiritual meaning, that he could turn into understanding, and eventually into the sort of serious focus that could yield power. It was based on a profound conviction that what’s on the surface – the everyday pain and frustration and small joys of life – is not what is essential.”

25. “Fred Rogers took profound stock of his feelings to find meaning, often spiritual meaning, that he could turn into understanding, and eventually into the sort of serious focus that could yield power. It was based on a profound conviction that what’s on the surface – the everyday pain and frustration and small joys of life – is not what is essential.”

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