Top 100 Fred Rogers Sayings
#1. Famous INFPs include Isabel Myers (creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), St. John the disciple, Carl Rogers, Princess Diana, George Orwell, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Rogers, A.A. Milne, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, and William Shakespeare.
Molly Owens
#2. Life isn't about what you've done, but what you can do
Fred Rogers to Tim
Tim Madigan
#3. I don't mean to sound boastful, but he was my icon before he was anyone else's. Being Mrs. Fred Rogers has been the most remarkable life I could ever have imagined.
Joanne Rogers
#4. You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
Fred Rogers
#5. It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!
Fred Rogers
#6. To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope.
Fred Rogers
#7. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.
Fred Rogers
#8. 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
#9. In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.
Fred Rogers
#11. When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on".
Fred Rogers
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
Fred Rogers
#15. It is our continuing love for our children that makes us want them to become all they can be, and their continuing love for us that helps them accept healthy discipline
from us and eventually from themselves.
Fred Rogers
#16. Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.
Fred Rogers
#17. 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
#18. When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.
Fred Rogers
#19. 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
#20. Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.
Fred Rogers
#21. My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring
delight , sadness, joy, wisdom
and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.
Fred Rogers
#22. There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.
Fred Rogers
#23. It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.
Fred Rogers
#24. All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors - in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.
Fred Rogers
#26. Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.
Fred Rogers
#27. We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
Fred Rogers
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.
Fred Rogers
#31. Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.
Fred Rogers
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.
Fred Rogers
#36. It's very important, no matter what you may do professionally, to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.
Fred Rogers
#37. It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God
Fred Rogers
#38. Very early in our children's lives we will be forced to realize that the "perfect" untroubled life we'd like for them is just a fantasy. In daily living, tears and fights and doing things we don't want to do are all part of our human ways of developing into adults.
Fred Rogers
#39. I realize that it isn't very fashionable to talk about some things being holy; nevertheless, if we ever want to rid ourselves of personal and corporate emptiness, brokenness, loneliness, and fear, we have to allow ourselves room for that which we can not see, hear, touch , or control.
Fred Rogers
#40. 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
#41. The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.
Fred Rogers
#42. Being able to resolve conflicts peacefully is one of the greatest strengths we can give our children.
Fred Rogers
#43. Feelings about money
saving and spending, holding back and letting go
start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.
Fred Rogers
#44. You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.
Fred Rogers
#45. I don't believe that children can develop in a healthy way unless they feel that they have value apart from anything they own or any skill that they learn. They need to feel they enhance the life of someone else, that they are needed. Who, better than parents, can let them know that?
Fred Rogers
#46. One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we admire so much.
Fred Rogers
#47. The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted
Fred Rogers
#48. Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
Fred Rogers
#49. Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.
Fred Rogers
#50. 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
#51. The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.
Fred Rogers
#52. The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
Fred Rogers
#53. My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.
Fred Rogers
#54. 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
#55. I don't want to eat anything that has a mother
Fred Rogers
#56. One of the strongest things I have had to wrestle with in my life is the significance of the longing for perfection in oneself and in the people bound to the self by friendship or parenthood or childhood.
Fred Rogers
#57. I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers
#58. The only thing evil can't stand is forgiveness.
Fred Rogers
#59. Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.
Fred Rogers
#60. Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.
Fred Rogers
#61. 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
#62. All of us have special ones who have loved us into being
Fred Rogers
#63. Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
Fred Rogers
#64. If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!
Fred Rogers
#65. 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
#66. I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.
Fred Rogers
#67. Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered ... just one kind word to another person.
Fred Rogers
#68. 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
#69. I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about - not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?
Fred Rogers
#70. If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern ... what better gift?
Fred Rogers
#71. All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
Fred Rogers
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important
Fred Rogers
#75. 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
#76. Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs.
Fred Rogers
#77. 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
#78. I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.
Fred Rogers
#79. Jane Addams, writing about her Twenty Years at Hull House, said, People did not want to hear about simple things. They wanted to hear about great things - simply told.
Fred Rogers
#80. As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults.
Fred Rogers
#81. Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did, .. backwards and in high heels.
From: Frank and Ernest by Bob Thaves, art by Bob Thaves.
Bob Thaves
#82. 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
#83. I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, "It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start." I could just "feel" how good it could be. But I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.
Fred Rogers
#84. In a young child's mind, parents probably condone what's on the television, just like they choose what's in the refrigerator or on the stove. That's why we who make television for children must be especially careful.
Fred Rogers
#85. Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.
Fred Rogers
#86. It's good to be curious about many things.
Fred Rogers
#87. 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
#88. Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!
Fred Rogers
#89. I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.
Fred Rogers
#90. Fame is a four-letter word. And like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or love, or life, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
Fred Rogers
#91. I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.
Fred Rogers
#92. You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.
Fred Rogers
#93. 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
#94. [I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)
Fred Rogers
#95. Real strength has to do with helping others.
Fred Rogers
#96. 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
#97. One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.
Fred Rogers
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.
Fred Rogers
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