Fred Rogers quotes

Born
March 20, 1928 Latrobe, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Died
February 27, 2003.

Occupation
Television personality.

Fred Rogers was an American television personality. He was known as host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1968–2001).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
– Fred Rogers

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!
– Fred Rogers

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

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.
– Fred Rogers

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

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

There’s always someone who is trying to help.
– Fred Rogers

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

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

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

I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That’s two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you’ll use the rest of the miles you’re given.
– Fred Rogers

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

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

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

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

Love begins with listening.
– Fred Rogers

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.
– Fred Rogers

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

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

Real strength has to do with helping others.
– Fred Rogers

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.
– Fred Rogers

Some days, doing “the best we can” may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.
– Fred Rogers

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

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

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

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.
– Fred Rogers

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