Fred Rogers
American television host and minister, 1928-2003
20 quotes.
Quotes by Fred Rogers
- Always look for the helpers. There’s always someone who is trying to help.
- Attitudes are caught, not taught.
- Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
- 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.
- If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
- Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.
- 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.
- It’s our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others.
- Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
- Love begins with listening.
- Love is at the root of everything. All learning. All parenting. All relationships. Love, or the lack of it.
- Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.
- Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence…And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives.
- The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
- The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
- 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.
- There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
- There was something else my mother did that I've always remembered: "Always look for the helpers," she'd tell me. "There's always someone who is trying to help."
- You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable.
- You know, 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're loved and capable of loving.