Fred Rogers Quotes Deep And Simple

Looking for some inspiration from the beloved children’s television host and educator, Fred Rogers? Here are the top 99 quotes that capture his philosophy of kindness, empathy, and simplicity.

1. “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.”
2. “The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”
3. “Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.”
4. “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.”
5. “The connections we make in the course of a life—maybe that’s what heaven is.”
6. “Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”
7. “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.”
8. “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.”
9. “What matters isn’t how a person’s inner life finally puts together the alphabet and numbers of his outer life. What really matters is whether he uses the alphabet for the declaration of a war or the description of a sunrise.”
10. “The thing I remember best about successful people I’ve met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they’re doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others.”
11. “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.”
12. “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.”
13. “When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.”
14. “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.”
15. “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.'”
16. “The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.”
17. “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.”
18. “The greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving.”
19. “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.”
20. “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.”
21. “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.”
22. “What I’ve learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I’ve also learned that change is possible — if you fight for it.”
23. “There’s no ‘should’ or ‘should not’ when it comes to having feelings. They’re part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.”
24. “The very first thing I do in the morning when I wake up is to make a conscious choice to be grateful.”
25. “The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.”
26. “The greatest gift you can give somebody is to be present with them.”
27. “No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.”
28. “The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.”
29. “There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.”
30. “How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.”
31. “One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.”
32. “The greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.”
33. “When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.”
34. “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.”
35. “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.”
36. “The thing I remember best about successful people I’ve met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they’re doing, and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others.”
37. “We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.”
38. “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.”
39. “In a way, you’ve already won in this world because you’re the only one who can be you.”
40. “Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.”
41. “Nobody else can live the life you live. And 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.”
42. “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.”
43. “I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.”
44. “The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.”
45. “Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”
46. “I’m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence…how can we reflect on our lives and our society when we don’t have the opportunity to be quiet and listen to the still, small voice of God?”
47. “Through children’s books, I take great pleasure in creating illustrations that help interpret words and ideas for young readers.”
48. “I believe that appreciation is a holy thing—that when we look for what’s best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we’re doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we’re participating in something sacred.”
49. “There is no one who has ever lived that is not loved by someone.”
50. “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.”
51. “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.”
52. “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.”
53. “The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.”
54. “The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.”
55. “The greatest gift you can give somebody is to be present with them.”
56. “You rarely have time for everything you want in this life