These Mr. Rogers quotes will brighten your day and help you navigate life’s most difficult moments.

Fred Rogers is best known as Mr. Rogers, the host of the renowned children’s television program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Mr. Rogers welcomed young viewers to his “neighborhood” for 33 years, from 1968 to 2001. He was known for creating a comforting, nurturing atmosphere that helped children understand themselves and the world around them.

Do you remember what Mr. Rogers taught you?

A whole generation has grown up since Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood stopped airing new episodes, but we can all stand to learn or refresh our memories from his wholesome lessons about life, love, kindness, and personal growth. As you browse the quotes below, consider how his timeless words of wisdom can apply to you, and perhaps to any children in your life.

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Mr. Rogers Quotes About Kindness and Goodness

1.) “You are special. You’re special to me. There’s only one in this wonderful world.” – Mr. Rogers

2.) “Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.” – Mr. Rogers

3.) “Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.” – Mr. Rogers

4.) “The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.”- Mr. Rogers

5.) “You can’t really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.” – Mr. Rogers

6.) “The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”- Mr. Rogers

7.) “I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.” – Mr. Rogers

8.) “Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.”- Mr. Rogers

9.) “It’s good to be curious about many things.”- Mr. Rogers

10.) “We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.” – Mr. Rogers

Mr. Rogers Quotes About Love

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.”- Mr. 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.”- Mr. 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.”- Mr. 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!” – Mr. 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.”- Mr. 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.” – Mr. Rogers

17.) “When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting and less scary.”- Mr. 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.” – Mr. 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.”- Mr. 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.” – Mr. 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.” – Mr. Rogers

22.) “Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.”- Mr. 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.” – Mr. 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.” – Mr. Rogers

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Mr. Rogers Quotes About What Really Matters

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.” – Mr. Rogers

26.) “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.”- Mr. Rogers

27.) “Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.”- Mr. Rogers

28.) “It’s not so much what we have in this life that matters. It’s what we do with what we have.”- Mr. Rogers

29.) “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

30.) “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.”- Mr. Rogers

31.) “Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.” – Mr. Rogers

32.) “In a way, you’ve already won in this world because you’re the only one who can be you.” – Mr. Rogers

33.) “Fame is a four-letter word; and like ‘tape’ or ‘zoom’ or ‘face’ or ‘pain’ or ‘life’ or ‘love,’ what ultimately matters is what we do with it.” – Mr. Rogers

34.) “Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.” – Mr. Rogers

35.) “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” – Mr. Rogers

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

37.) “Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence…And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives.” – Mr. Rogers

Mr. Rogers Quotes About Helping

38.) “The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they’re generally not the ones being touted in the news.” – Mr. Rogers

39.) “There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don’t seem to help.” – Mr. Rogers

40.) “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.”- Mr. Rogers

41.) “Real strength has to do with helping others.” – Mr. Rogers

42.) “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero.” – Mr. Rogers

43.) “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. That’s one of the things that connects us as neighbors—in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.” – Mr. Rogers

44.) “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.’” – Mr. Rogers

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Mr. Rogers Quotes About Growth and Individuality

45.) “Even though no human being is perfect, we always have the chance to bring what’s unique about us to life in a redeeming way.” – Mr. Rogers

46.) “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

47.) “Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.” – Mr. Rogers

48.) “Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.” – Mr. Rogers

49.) “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

50.) “Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.” – Mr. Rogers

51.) “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

52.) “I’m proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you had ever done.” – Mr. Rogers

53.) “Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect on any front and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.” – Mr. Rogers

54.) “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

55.) “You can think about things and make believe. All you have to do is think and they’ll grow.” – Mr. Rogers

56.) “Nobody else can live the life you live.” – Mr. Rogers

57.) “We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.” – Mr. Rogers

58.) “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. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.” – Mr. Rogers

59.) “Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you’re thinking or feeling unless you share it.” – Mr. Rogers

60.) “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

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Other Mr. Rogers quotes and sayings

61. “Peace means far more than the opposite of war.” – Mr. Rogers

62. “Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.” – Mr. Rogers

63. “Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.” – Mr. Rogers

64. “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

65. “Being able to resolve conflicts peacefully is one of the greatest strengths we can give our children.” – Mr. Rogers

66. “You’ve made this day a special day, by just your being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.” – Mr. Rogers

67. “All our lives, we rework the things from our childhood, like feeling good about ourselves, managing our angry feelings, being able to say good-bye to people we love.” – Mr. Rogers

68. “Understanding love is one of the hardest things in the world.” – Mr. Rogers

69. “I think that those who would try to make you feel less than who you are, I think that’s the greatest evil.” – Mr. Rogers

70. “Deep within each of us is a spark of the divine just waiting to be used to light up a dark space.” – Mr. Rogers

Doesn’t it feel as though Mr. Rogers were speaking directly to you?

Fred Rogers always made it his goal for every one of his young viewers to feel personally connected to his show. He wanted children to know they were loved so that they could explore themselves and their world without fear.

Mr. Rogers believed that fear was the most toxic thing that could exist in a person’s life. He reasoned that if you feel afraid, you can’t grow and become the best version of yourself.

When you feel confident that you are not in danger and all your basic needs will be met, you can then grow and improve on yourself without fear. Think of what you can achieve if you leave fear behind you!

What’s your biggest takeaway from these Mr. Rogers quotes and sayings? Do you have any other favorite quotes to add? Let us know in the comment section below.