Fred Rogers

“Life is for service.”

— Fred Rogers

Please won't you be my neighbor?

— Fred Rogers

Children aren't responsible for wars.

— Fred Rogers

If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

— Fred Rogers

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

— Fred Rogers

Play is really the work of childhood

— Fred Rogers

Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

— Fred Rogers

Whatever is mentionable is manageable.

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

— Fred Rogers

Just because somebody wants to be alone sometimes, it doesn't mean they don't love you.

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

— Fred Rogers

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into…

— Fred Rogers

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are…

— Fred Rogers

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of…

— Fred Rogers

“There’s a part of all of us that longs to know that even what’s weakest about us is still redeemable and can…

— Fred Rogers

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

— Fred Rogers

In my own life, as the nearer I get to the end of life on this earth, the simpler I want to…

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

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

— Fred Rogers

What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly…

— Fred Rogers

How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling…

— Fred Rogers

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…

— Fred Rogers

All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend…

— Fred Rogers

Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical…

— Fred Rogers

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in…

— Fred Rogers

Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in…

— Fred Rogers

We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to…

— Fred Rogers

The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a…

— Fred Rogers

Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave…

— Fred Rogers

There are many things children accept as "grown-up things" over when they have no control and for which they have no responsibility--for…

— Fred Rogers

It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love…

— Fred Rogers

“I remember one of my seminary professors saying people who were able to appreciate others—who looked for what was good and healthy…

— Fred Rogers

“One of our friends asked Fred about his thoughts on heaven when she was taking a walk with him on a Nantucket…

— Fred Rogers

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more…

— Fred Rogers

A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes,…

— Fred Rogers