Mr. Rogers Quotes
These Mr. Rogers quotes share lessons of kindness. Many of us first watched this thoughtful man on the preschool television show Mister Rogers Neighborhood.
He helped mentor and educate children while bringing joy to so many people’s homes. We hope you enjoy these quotes and are inspired to be kind to one another.
Good Mr. Rogers Quotes
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero.
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.
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
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.
You can’t really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.
Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.
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.
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.
It’s not so much what we have in this life that matters. It’s what we do with what we have.
Mr. Rogers Helpers’ Quote
Mr. Rogers’s look for the helpers quote is a classic. In times of tragedy, this saying is frequently referenced.
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.”
Real strength has to do with helping others.
Mister Roger Sayings
The thing I remember best about successful people I’ve met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they’re doing, and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be the hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.
It’s good to be curious about many things.
I hope you’re proud of yourself for the times you’ve said ‘yes,’ when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.
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.
Neighbor Quotes
Many Mr. Rogers quotes provide life lessons for kids of all ages.
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.
Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.
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.
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. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
I like you just the way you are.
Fred Rogers Quotes
Imagining something 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 and turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.
There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don’t seem to help.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Heartwarming Mister Roger Sayings
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.
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.
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.
Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.
The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they’re generally not the ones being touted in the news.
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.
We get so wrapped up in numbers in our society. The most important thing is that we are able to be one-to-one, you and I with each other at the moment. If we can be present to the moment with the person that we happen to be with, that’s what’s important.
Short Mr Rogers Quotes
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
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.
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?
The connections we make in the course of a life—maybe that’s what heaven is.
In a way, you’ve already won in this world because you’re the only one who can be you.
We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.
Love and success, always in that order. It’s that simple AND that difficult.
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
I’m proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you had ever done.
It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.
Nobody else can live the life you live.
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
Love Quotes
Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
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.
Fame is a four-letter word, and like ‘tape’ or ‘zoom’ or ‘face’ or ‘pain’ or ‘life’ or ‘love,’ what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in this world.
It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.
By MJ O’Halloran
MJ is a big believer in the life lessons that Mister Rogers shared with his audience.
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