Quotes by 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
“Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.”— Fred Rogers
“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
“The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.”— Fred Rogers
“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
“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.”— Fred Rogers
“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.'”— Fred Rogers
“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
“It's not so much what we have in this life that matters. It's what we do with what we have.”— Fred Rogers
“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
“Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.”— Fred Rogers
“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
“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