Top 160 Robert Fulghum Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.”

— Robert Fulghum

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2. “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

— Robert Fulghum

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3. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

— Robert Fulghum

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4. “Above all, if what you’ve done is stupid, but it works, it ain’t stupid.”

— Robert Fulghum

5. “It doesn’t matter what you say you believe – it only matters what you do.”

— Robert Fulghum

6. “Clean up your own mess.”

— Robert Fulghum

7. “The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.”

— Robert Fulghum

8. “If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”

— Robert Fulghum

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9. “One of life’s best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.”

— Robert Fulghum

10. “And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.”

— Robert Fulghum

11. “Share everything. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Put things back where you found them.”

— Robert Fulghum

12. “The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.”

— Robert Fulghum

13. “Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”

— Robert Fulghum

14. “The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.”

— Robert Fulghum

15. “Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”

— Robert Fulghum

16. “Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.”

— Robert Fulghum

17. “Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.”

— Robert Fulghum

18. “It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.”

— Robert Fulghum

19. “Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.”

— Robert Fulghum

20. “Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.”

— Robert Fulghum

21. “Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.”

— Robert Fulghum

22. “And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.”

— Robert Fulghum

23. “The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you’ve been feeling just awful.”

— Robert Fulghum

24. “Peace is not something you wish for, it’s something you make.”

— Robert Fulghum

25. “If I don’t have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?”

— Robert Fulghum

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26. “The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.”

— Robert Fulghum

27. “Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.”

— Robert Fulghum

28. “My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn’t another dance left in me.”

— Robert Fulghum

29. “Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.”

— Robert Fulghum

30. “Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be separated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms – liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it’s still water.”

— Robert Fulghum

31. “Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.”

— Robert Fulghum

32. “The name is not important anymore – it’s the tone that counts. I feel like an old dog I know. He will come to any name you call him, just so long as your demeanor carries with it the promise of affection and food.”

— Robert Fulghum

33. “About winning and losing: It isn’t important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!”

— Robert Fulghum

34. “Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.”

— Robert Fulghum

35. “If you tell people you talk to God, they’ll think you’re religious, but if you say God talks to you, it’s ten to one they’ll think you’re crazy.”

— Robert Fulghum

36. “Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

— Robert Fulghum

37. “The examined life is no picnic.”

— Robert Fulghum

38. “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.”

— Robert Fulghum

39. “But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.”

— Robert Fulghum

40. “You can’t always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.”

— Robert Fulghum

41. “We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.”

— Robert Fulghum

42. “Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.”

— Robert Fulghum

43. “Play fair. Don’t hit people. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.”

— Robert Fulghum

44. “You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.”

— Robert Fulghum

45. “And sure, I know if you eat this way you’ll die. So? If you don’t eat this way you’re still going to die. Why not die happy?”

— Robert Fulghum

46. “I have never liked the phrase that says we’re just made of dust and return to dust. We are energy, which is interchangeable with light. We are fire and water and earth. We are air and atoms and quarks. Moreover, we are dreams, hopes, and fears held together by wisdom and driven apart by folly. So much more than dust. The biblical verse should say, “Miracle thou art and to Mystery returneth.”

— Robert Fulghum

47. “Dreams are more powerful than facts.”

— Robert Fulghum

48. “I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.”

— Robert Fulghum

49. “We are as different from one another on the inside of our heads as we appear to be different from one another on the outside of our heads.”

— Robert Fulghum

50. “The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander – a maze that is best got through with a great companion.”

— Robert Fulghum