Fred Rogers Quotes - Page 3

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.

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . . .

What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody's perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.

What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements... and into dreams that we can make come true.

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.

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.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

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.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

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.

Deep within us-no matter who we are-there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

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?