1. “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero. ” -Mr. Rogers
2. “Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.” -Mr. Rogers
3. “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?” -Mr. Rogers
4. “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.” -Mr. Rogers
5. “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.” -Mr. Rogers
6. “Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.” -Mr. Rogers
7. “Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.” -Mr. Rogers
8. “Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect. ” -Mr. Rogers
9. “Love and success, always in that order. It’s that simple AND that difficult.” -Mr. Rogers
10. “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.” -Mr. Rogers
11. “Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.” -Mr. Rogers
12. “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” -Mr. Rogers
13. “Real strength has to do with helping others.” -Mr. Rogers
14. “The connections we make in the course of a life–maybe that’s what heaven is.” -Mr. Rogers
15. “The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.” -Mr. Rogers
16. “The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.” -Mr. Rogers
17. “The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.” -Mr. Rogers
18. “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.” -Mr. Rogers
19. “There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don’t seem to help.” -Mr. Rogers
20. “There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.” -Mr. Rogers
21. “We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.” -Mr. Rogers
22. “We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.” -Mr. Rogers
23. “Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.” -Mr. Rogers
24. “You can think about things and make believe. All you have to do is think and they’ll grow.” -Mr. Rogers
25. “You can’t really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.” -Mr. Rogers
26. “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.” -Mr. Rogers
27. “One of the greatest gifts you can give anybody is the gift of your honest self. I also believe that kids can spot a phony a mile away.” -Mr. Rogers
28. “The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.” -Mr.Rogers
29. “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!” -Mr. Rogers
30. “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.”-Fred Rogers
31. “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.” -Mr. Rogers
32. “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.” -Mr. Rogers
33. “One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.” -Mr. Rogers
34. “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.” -Mr. Rogers
35. “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.” -Mr. Rogers
36. “Children’s play is not just kids’ stuff. Children’s play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.” -Mr. Rogers
37. “There’s a world of difference between insisting on someone’s doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.” -Mr. Rogers
38. “There are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” -Mr. Rogers
39. “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.” -Mr. Rogers
40. “Even though no human being is perfect, we always have the chance to bring what’s unique about us to live in a redeeming way.” -Mr. Rogers