Mister Rogers Quotes

You are special just the way you are. – Mister Rogers

Love is at the root of everything, all learning, all relationships. – Mister Rogers

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

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors. – Mister Rogers

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers. – Mister Rogers

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self. – Mister Rogers

You don’t have to do anything sensational for people to love you. – Mister Rogers

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. – Mister Rogers

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. – Mister Rogers

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort. – Mister Rogers

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile. – Mister Rogers

It’s not so much what we have in this life that matters. It’s what we do with what we have. – Mister Rogers

Mister Rogers Quotes part 2

There isn’t anyone you couldn’t learn to love once you’ve heard their story. – Mister Rogers

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. – Mister Rogers

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. – Mister Rogers

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

The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is. – Mister Rogers

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still. – Mister Rogers

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong along 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. – Mister Rogers

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness. – Mister Rogers

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. – Mister Rogers

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort. – Mister Rogers

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline. – Mister Rogers

As long as we’re able to be talked with, there’s hope for our world. – Mister Rogers

Whether we’re a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we’re acceptable, that our being alive somehow counts in the grand scheme of things. – Mister Rogers

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. – Mister Rogers

I’m proud of you for the times you’ve said ‘yes,’ when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else. – Mister Rogers

It takes strength to be gentle and kind. – Mister Rogers

When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. – Mister Rogers

Part of the problem with the word ‘disabilities’ is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can’t feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren’t able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities. – Mister Rogers

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. – Mister Rogers

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. – Mister Rogers

The more you care, the stronger you can be. – Mister Rogers

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. – Mister Rogers

The greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving. – Mister Rogers

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. – Mister Rogers

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. – Mister Rogers

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. – Mister Rogers

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. – Mister Rogers

As you grow, you’ll find goals that you set and carefully tended with love and with caring. And dreams that you dreamt and stored in your heart slowly but surely you’ll make them come true. – Mister Rogers

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. – Mister Rogers

The thing I remember best about successful people I’ve met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they’re doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others. – Mister Rogers

Play is really the work of childhood. – Mister Rogers

When you love someone, you can sing anything to them. – Mister Rogers

When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. – Mister Rogers