Fred Rogers quote: "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."

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...
FRED ROGERS

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than...
FRED ROGERS

The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift,...
FRED ROGERS

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

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. Whe...
FRED ROGERS

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
FRED ROGERS

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is se...
FRED ROGERS

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so...
FRED ROGERS

In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such ...
FRED ROGERS

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure ...
FRED ROGERS

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatica...
FRED ROGERS

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious de...
FRED ROGERS

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the ...
FRED ROGERS

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future an...
FRED ROGERS

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into th...
FRED ROGERS

I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would w...
FRED ROGERS

Songs from the Neighborhood
FRED ROGERS

When I saw the toy piano on one of the pages, that was it!
FRED ROGERS

What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, and it may take ...
FRED ROGERS

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.
FRED ROGERS

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
FRED ROGERS

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
FRED ROGERS

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
FRED ROGERS

He was an enormous talent, and for him to have been able to offer that to children through the neigh...
FRED ROGERS

All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we’re giving or receiving help, each one of u...
FRED ROGERS

How many times have you noticed that it’s the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem ...
FRED ROGERS

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and ang...
FRED ROGERS

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life that ultimately nourish our souls....
FRED ROGERS

Kenneth Koch once said, “You aren’t just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have bee...
FRED ROGERS

Real strength has to do with helping others.
FRED ROGERS

The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, co...
FRED ROGERS

Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ours...
FRED ROGERS

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing a...
FRED ROGERS

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.
FRED ROGERS

A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know yo...
FRED ROGERS

Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinki...
FRED ROGERS

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

There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and...
FRED ROGERS

Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see...
FRED ROGERS

How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt...
FRED ROGERS

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness....
FRED ROGERS

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be ...
FRED ROGERS

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious de...
FRED ROGERS

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with depende...
FRED ROGERS

Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we hum...
FRED ROGERS

I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work fo...
FRED ROGERS

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's a...
FRED ROGERS

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mi...
FRED ROGERS

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
FRED ROGERS

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our heart...
FRED ROGERS

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but ...
FRED ROGERS

Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.
FRED ROGERS

You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.
FRED ROGERS

Mutually caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's...
FRED ROGERS

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for ...
FRED ROGERS

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
FRED ROGERS

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. I've...
FRED ROGERS

[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of s...
FRED ROGERS

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
FRED ROGERS

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's t...
FRED ROGERS

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
FRED ROGERS

You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And cons...
FRED ROGERS

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo...
ROGERS

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
WILL ROGERS

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
WILL ROGERS

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
WILL ROGERS

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
WILL ROGERS

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
WAYNE ROGERS

There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
WAYNE ROGERS

It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as a...
WAYNE ROGERS

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal ...
WAYNE ROGERS

Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
WAYNE ROGERS

Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate t...
WAYNE ROGERS

Entrepreneurs bring to business... creativity.
WAYNE ROGERS

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's alway...
WAYNE ROGERS

Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best arou...
WAYNE ROGERS

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscri...
WAYNE ROGERS

You can't change the market; the market just is.
WAYNE ROGERS

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the...
WAYNE ROGERS

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
WAYNE ROGERS

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
WAYNE ROGERS

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that...
WAYNE ROGERS

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
WAYNE ROGERS

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition ...
WAYNE ROGERS

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.
WAYNE ROGERS

I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
WAYNE ROGERS

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those...
WAYNE ROGERS

People will always want a free lunch.
WAYNE ROGERS

The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody w...
WAYNE ROGERS

When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and se...
WAYNE ROGERS

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.
WAYNE ROGERS

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
ROY ROGERS

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.
ROGERS HORNSBY

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.
ROGERS HORNSBY

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
ROGERS HORNSBY

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.
ROGERS HORNSBY

I've never been a yes man.
ROGERS HORNSBY

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my han...
ROGERS HORNSBY

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
ROGERS HORNSBY

I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a tim...
GINGER ROGERS

Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've s...
GINGER ROGERS

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
WILL ROGERS

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we c...
MIKE ROGERS

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get...
WILL ROGERS

I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will g...
WILL ROGERS

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked abo...
WILL ROGERS

Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in thi...
WILL ROGERS

Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for ...
WILL ROGERS

There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you ...
WILL ROGERS

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
WILL ROGERS

Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS

I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
WILL ROGERS

And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS

I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
WILL ROGERS

I never met a man I didn't like.
WILL ROGERS

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
WILL ROGERS

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
JIM ROGERS

While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. Th...
GINGER ROGERS

Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the aren...
DESIREE ROGERS

I'm a business person at heart.
DESIREE ROGERS

We've become accustomed to let officials handle everything.
AL ROGERS

Our young black men are falling victim to some anti-social behavior. Our kids are going to find acce...
AL ROGERS

It was a blow to me. My job is to make sure the building is safe.
AL ROGERS

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beaut...
AL ROGERS

I'm happy to be here. I enjoy my job so far and I'm glad to work in the town I grew up in.
ALAN ROGERS

He is, in our view, reformed.
ALAN ROGERS

They just need to do something to make it look nicer.
ALAN ROGERS

It's a hard transition. You have to really want to be a part of a new culture.
ALAN ROGERS

They may think that all military officers are George Patton, but what about Colin Powell? We're real...
ALAN ROGERS

The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong...
WILL ROGERS

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse ...
WILL ROGERS

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
WILL ROGERS

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
WILL ROGERS

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
WILL ROGERS

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get s...
WILL ROGERS

To know her was to love her.
SAMUEL ROGERS

The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
SAMUEL ROGERS

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
SAMUEL ROGERS

Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.
SAMUEL ROGERS

Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
SAMUEL ROGERS

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
WILL ROGERS

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes ...
WILL ROGERS

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
WILL ROGERS

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
WILL ROGERS

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
WILL ROGERS

Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus.
ADRIAN ROGERS

The city has come together for strength and to rally -- that is a good thing,
ADRIAN ROGERS

Writing is one of the ambitions I have,
ADRIAN ROGERS

The idea is to minister to pastors and share with them what God has taught me over 50 years of minis...
ADRIAN ROGERS

I have known him for years,
ADRIAN ROGERS

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You bein...
WILL ROGERS

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start...
WILL ROGERS

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every ...
WILL ROGERS

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
WILL ROGERS

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
WILL ROGERS

No party is as bad as its leaders.
WILL ROGERS

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
WILL ROGERS

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each part...
WILL ROGERS

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
WILL ROGERS

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried...
WILL ROGERS

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long ...
WILL ROGERS

If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
WILL ROGERS

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.
WILL ROGERS

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was s...
WILL ROGERS

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
CARL ROGERS

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL ROGERS

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
CARL ROGERS

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
CARL ROGERS

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this p...
CARL ROGERS

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi...
CARL ROGERS

All I know is what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ...
WILL ROGERS

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
WILL ROGERS

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
JAMES ROGERS

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best o...
WILL ROGERS

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
WILL ROGERS

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
WILL ROGERS

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
WILL ROGERS

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...
WILL ROGERS

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
WILL ROGERS

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
WILL ROGERS

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
WILL ROGERS

The relationship which I have found helpful is characterized by a sort of transparency on my part, i...
CARL ROGERS

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of ...
CARL ROGERS

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.
CARL ROGERS

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change
CARL ROGERS

In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this ...
CARL ROGERS

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion ...
CARL ROGERS

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
CARL ROGERS

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
CARL ROGERS

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
WILL 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.

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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.

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