Fred Rogers Quotes

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.

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.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

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

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

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

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

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.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody's perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.

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.

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

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts.

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Real strength has to do with helping others.

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.

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.

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

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.

I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

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

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

Love begins with listening.

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

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.