Fred Rogers Quotes

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

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.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

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

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

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

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

Play is really the work of childhood.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

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

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

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

The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?

Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

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

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.

I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

It's a miracle when we finally discover whom we're best equipped to serve.

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.

What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.