Top 200 Fred Rogers Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

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2. “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

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3. “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.”

— Fred Rogers

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4. “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

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5. “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

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

— Fred Rogers

7. “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

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8. “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

9. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

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10. “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

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

— Fred Rogers

12. “I like you just the way you are.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

14. “As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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16. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

18. “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

19. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

20. “Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.”

— Fred Rogers

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21. “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

22. “The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

24. “The connections we make in the course of a life – maybe that’s what heaven is.”

— Fred Rogers

25. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

26. “Real strength has to do with helping others.”

— Fred Rogers

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27. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

28. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

30. “People have said, ‘Don’t cry’ to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, ‘I’m too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don’t cry.’ I’d rather have them say, ‘Go ahead and cry. I’m here to be with you.’”

— Fred Rogers

31. “Attitudes are caught, not taught.”

— Fred Rogers

32. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

33. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

34. “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

35. “Love begins with listening.”

— Fred Rogers

36. “Life is for service.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

39. “Anything mentionable is manageable.”

— Fred Rogers

40. “It’s important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.”

— Fred Rogers

41. “Play is really the work of childhood.”

— Fred Rogers

42. “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

43. “The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

45. “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?”

— Fred Rogers

46. “Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

48. “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

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

— Fred Rogers

50. “All of us have special ones who have loved us into being.”

— Fred Rogers