Fred Rogers Quotes

• 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

  Life, Success, Thank You

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• 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. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

  Fred Rogers

  Motivational, Depression, Uplifting

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.17, Penguin

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• You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

  Fred Rogers

  Friendship, Special, Each Day

  "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood",, www.imdb.com. 1968 - 2001.

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• Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

  Fred Rogers

  Kids, Anti Bullying, Thinking

  Fred Rogers (2003). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

  Fred Rogers

  Fall, Perfect, May

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.10, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.

  Fred Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.19, Penguin

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• 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

  Children, Hero, Responsibility

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• 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." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

  Fred Rogers

  Mother, Fear, Caring

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.93, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Attitudes are caught, not taught.

  Fred Rogers

  Attitude, Taught, Caught

  Fred Rogers (2001). “Mister Rogers' Playtime”, p.104, Running Press

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• The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

  Fred Rogers

  Giving, Want, Persons

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• Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

  Fred Rogers

  Real, Caring, Would Be

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.92, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

  Fred Rogers

  Beautiful, Neighbor, Mines

  "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" (song) (1967)

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• Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Memorial Day, Teacher, Children

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• In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

  Fred Rogers

  Inspirational, Stress, Heart

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.94, Penguin

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• When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

  Fred Rogers

  Strong, Lovely, Way

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.13, Penguin

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• Love begins with listening.

  Fred Rogers

  Christian, Love Is, Christian Inspirational

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• At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Heart, Emotional

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• I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.

  Fred Rogers

  Appreciation, Believe, Appreciate

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• Real strength has to do with helping others.

  Fred Rogers

  Real, Helping Others, Helping

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.22, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Life And Love, Light, Given

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• Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.

  Fred Rogers

  Differences, Space, Our World

  "Revisiting Fred Rogers’ 2002 Commencement Address". news.dartmouth.edu. March 27, 2018.

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• There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

  Fred Rogers

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Self Love

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.17, Penguin

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• Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

  Fred Rogers

  Loss, Somewhere Else, Feelings

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.106, Penguin

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• It's a miracle when we finally discover whom we're best equipped to serve.

  Fred Rogers

  Miracle

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• All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

  Fred Rogers

  Thinking, People, Silence

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