Top 200 Fred Rogers Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.”

— Fred Rogers

52. “You’ve made this day a special day, by just your being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

55. “Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”

— Fred Rogers

56. “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

57. “All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.”

— Fred Rogers

58. “The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.”

— Fred Rogers

59. “We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

62. “It’s a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.”

— Fred Rogers

63. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

64. “I believe it’s a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.”

— Fred Rogers

65. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

66. “Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I’m concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying ‘I love you’ is being a receptive listener.”

— Fred Rogers

67. “You know, you don’t have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

70. “Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.”

— Fred Rogers

71. “One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.”

— Fred Rogers

72. “What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody’s perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.”

— Fred Rogers

73. “When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.”

— Fred Rogers

74. “How many times have you noticed that it’s the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?”

— Fred Rogers

75. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

76. “Parents don’t come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It’s about our own growing as much as it is about our children’s growing and that kind of growing happens little by little.”

— Fred Rogers

77. “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

78. “The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.”

— Fred Rogers

79. “Love isn’t a perfect state of caring.”

— Fred Rogers

80. “The most important learning is the ability to accept and expect mistakes, and deal with the disappointments that they bring.”

— Fred Rogers

81. “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

82. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

84. “When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That’s an important thing for our children to learn.”

— Fred Rogers

85. “We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.”

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

87. “Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.”

— Fred Rogers

88. “Whether we’re a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we’re acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.”

— Fred Rogers

89. “Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.”

— Fred Rogers

90. “The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.”

— Fred Rogers

91. “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

92. “I don’t want to eat anything that has a mother.”

— Fred Rogers

93. “Love isn’t a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle.”

— Fred Rogers

94. “When we treat children’s play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that’s to be found in the creative spirit. It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.”

— Fred Rogers

95. “Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person – and often many – who have believed in him or her. We just don’t get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.”

— Fred Rogers

96. “Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a child’s capability; they are consistent; and they are an expression of loving concern.”

— Fred Rogers

97. “When we’re able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.”

— Fred Rogers

98. “Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.”

— Fred Rogers

99. “It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what’s of value.”

— Fred Rogers

100. “Deep within each of us is a spark of the divine just waiting to be used to light up a dark space.”

— Fred Rogers