50 Fred Rogers Quotes About Life (KINDNESS)

Top 10 Most Famous Fred Rogers Quotes (BEST)

“All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we’re giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That’s one of the things that connects us as neighbors—in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.”
Fred Rogers

One of the greatest gifts you can give anybody is the gift of your honest self. I also believe that kids can spot a phony a mile away. — One of the greatest gifts you can give anybody is the gift of your **honest** self. I also believe that kids can spot a phony a mile away.

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

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. — 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.

Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.

“When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
Fred Rogers

One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness. — One of the most important **gifts** a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child’s uniqueness.

I don’t think anyone can grow unless he’s loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be. — I don’t think anyone can grow unless he’s loved exactly as he is now, **appreciated** for what he is rather than what he will be.

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. — 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 not so much what we have in this life that matters. It’s what we do with what we have.

14 Inspirational Fred Rogers Quotes About Life

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
Fred Rogers

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.' — 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.’

Nobody else can live the life you live. — Nobody else can live the **life** you live.

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

You are special. You’re special to me. There’s only one in this wonderful world.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war. — **Peace** means far more than the opposite of war.

Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

In my own life, as the nearer I get to the end of life on this earth, the simpler I want to become.

“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!”
Fred Rogers

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

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

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. — 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.

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

In every neighborhood, all across our country, there are good people insisting on a good start for the young, and doing something about it.

16 Fred Rogers Quotes on Love and Kindness

“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

What really matters is helping others win, too, even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then. — What really matters is helping others win, too, even if it means slowing down and **changing** our course now and then.

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. — **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.

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

“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

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

Love and success, always in that order. It’s that simple and that difficult. — **Love** and **success**, always in that order. It’s that simple and that difficult.

Imagine what our neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.

“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.”
Fred Rogers

It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression. — It’s our job to **encourage** each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.

Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

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. — 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.

“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.”
Fred Rogers

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

Real strength has to do with helping others.

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!

10 WiseFred Rogers Quotes that Will Make You Think (WISDOM)

“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 somebody else.”
Fred Rogers

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

“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.”
Fred Rogers

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

Even though no human being is perfect, we always have the chance to bring what’s unique about us to live in a redeeming way. — Even though no human being is perfect, we always have the **chance** to bring what’s unique about us to live in a redeeming way.

Often out of periods of losing, come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak. — Often out of periods of losing, come the greatest strivings toward a new **winning** streak.

“Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.”
Fred Rogers