Best Fred Rogers Quotes
Fred Rogers Quotes About Teachers, Education, Love, Life, Play, Learning, Neighbors, Helpers, Friendship, Death, Kindness & Success! Among his many talents, Fred McFeely Rogers was a television host, writer, singer, producer, and puppeteer. He’s one of the most well-known faces in American television history. A native of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, the United States, Fred Rogers was born on March 20, 1928. Even as a child, Rogers took a keen interest in music. In 1946, he finished ‘Latrobe High School.’ After being accepted to the elite ‘Dartmouth College,’ he was moved to ‘Rollins College’ in the Winter Park area of Florida.
When he was a college senior, he went home to see his parents and saw a television for the first time. Fred wanted to be a part of the new wave of American television that was taking place at the moment. In 1951, he sought a position with NBC, the leading national television network, because of his interest in television. Rogers got a theology degree from the ‘Pittsburgh Theological Seminary while working at ‘WQED.’
He and his buddy Ernie Coombs created a television show called “Mr. Dressup” later in life. The show was a huge success and is still one of Canada’s longest-running children’s programs. One of Fred Rogers’ crowning artistic triumphs was the television series “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Today, it’s still regarded as an American television classic. The program was one of the world’s longest-running television series, airing for over three decades.
Rogers was recognized with the ‘Daytime Emmys’ 1997 ‘Lifetime Achievement Award.’ Rogers was nominated to the ‘Television Hall of Fame’ in 1999. Throughout his career, Rogers was awarded more than 40 award nominations. In 2003, he passed away peacefully at home with his wife.
Best Fred Rogers Quotes
1.) “You are special. You’re special to me. There’s only one in this wonderful world.” -Fred Rogers
2.) “Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.” -Fred Rogers
3.) “Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.” -Fred Rogers
4.) “The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.”-Fred Rogers
5.) “You can’t really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.” -Fred Rogers
6.) “The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”-Fred Rogers
7.) “I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.” -Fred Rogers
8.) “Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.”-Fred Rogers
9.) “It’s good to be curious about many things.”-Fred Rogers
10.) “We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.” -Fred Rogers
11.) “There’s a part of all of us that longs to know that even what’s weakest about us is still redeemable and can ultimately count for something good.”-Fred Rogers
12.) “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
13.) “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.”-Fred Rogers
14.) “It’s the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest…and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!” -Fred Rogers
15.) “Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”-Fred Rogers
16.) “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.”-Fred Rogers
17.) “When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting and less scary.”-Fred Rogers
18.) “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.” -Fred Rogers
19.) “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
20.) “Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.”-Fred Rogers
21.) “Love is like infinity: You can’t have more or less infinity, and you can’t compare two things to see if they’re ‘equally infinite.’ Infinity just is, and that’s the way I think love is, too.” -Fred Rogers
22.) “Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.”-Fred Rogers
23.) “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.” -Fred Rogers
24.) “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.” -Fred Rogers
25.) “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.”-Fred Rogers
