Fred Rogers famous quotes

Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.
-- Fred Rogers

#Blow #Wind #People

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
-- Fred Rogers

#Different #World #Who We Are

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
-- Fred Rogers

#Meetings #Persons

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.
-- Fred Rogers

#Jobs #Children #Doctors

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
-- Fred Rogers

#Self #Generosity #Giving

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, 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.
-- Fred Rogers

#Mother #Fear #Caring

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
-- Fred Rogers

#Opportunity #Knowing #People

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
-- Fred Rogers

#Memorial Day #Teacher #Children

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.
-- Fred Rogers

#Knowing #Soul #Honor

I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable and, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they are loved and capable of loving.
-- Fred Rogers

#Love #Thinking #Helping

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.
-- Fred Rogers

#Acceptance #People #Trying

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
-- Fred Rogers

#Motivational #Depression #Uplifting

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
-- Fred Rogers

#Character #Past #Who We Are

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.
-- Fred Rogers

#Acceptance #Self #Giving

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
-- Fred Rogers

#Education #Children #Reality

We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
-- Fred Rogers

#Children #Hero #Responsibility

It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.
-- Fred Rogers

#Years #Wish #Care

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.
-- Fred Rogers

#Children #Parenting #Moon

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
-- Fred Rogers

#Love #Struggle #Acceptance

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
-- Fred Rogers

#People #Feelings #Needs

As human beings, our job in life 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 that is unique to all time.
-- Fred Rogers

#Jobs #Unique #People

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
-- Fred Rogers

#Life #Success #Thank You

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted
-- Fred Rogers

#Broken #Kingdoms #Kingdom Of God

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
-- Fred Rogers

#Giving #Perfect #Littles

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.
-- Fred Rogers

#Grief #Sadness #Grieving

At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.
-- Fred Rogers

#Jobs #Heart #Emotional

My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.
-- Fred Rogers

#Mother #Dog #Children

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
-- Fred Rogers

#Love Is #Listening #Neighbor

Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
-- Fred Rogers

#People #Looks #Helping

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
-- Fred Rogers

#Feel Good #Feelings #Essentials

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you. So, let's make the most of this beautiful day. Since we're together we might as well say: Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you be my neighbor? Won't you please, Won't you please? Please won't you be my neighbor?
-- Fred Rogers

#Beautiful #Together #Might

Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.
-- Fred Rogers

#Our World #Jewels #Differences

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
-- Fred Rogers

#Life And Love #Light #Given

How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements... and into dreams that we can make come true.
-- Fred Rogers

#Dream #Disappointment #Fall

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.
-- Fred Rogers

#Ears #Mouths #Speak

I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.
-- Fred Rogers

#Teacher #Memories #Feelings

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.
-- Fred Rogers

#Thinking #People #Silence

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being
-- Fred Rogers

#Special