Fred Rogers Quotes

• 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.

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  Mother, Fear, Caring

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• 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.

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  Life, Success, Thank You

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• Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

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  Opportunity, Knowing, People

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• The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

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  Self, Generosity, Giving

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

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  Kids, Anti Bullying, Thinking

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

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  Memorial Day, Teacher, Children

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• What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

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  Mean, Helping Others, Winning

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

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  Real, Caring, Would Be

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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.

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  Motivational, Depression, Uplifting

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• 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.

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  Dream, Disappointment, Fall

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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.

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  Jobs, Heart, Emotional

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• In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.

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  Love You, Grateful, Eye

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

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Solitude

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• I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

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  Writing, Broken, Clubs

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• 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?

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  Quiet Moments, Giving, Special

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• 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 are loved and capable of loving.

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  Love, Thinking, Helping

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• I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - friends, family, teachers, shopkeepers - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you.

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  Teacher, Memories, Feelings

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• 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.

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  Knowing, Soul, Honor

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• A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

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  Love Of Learning

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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.

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  Strong, Lovely, Way

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• When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

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  Children, Parenting, Moon

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• Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.

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  Grief, Sadness, Grieving

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• When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

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  Children, Hero, Air

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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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts.

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  Children, Heart, Giving

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