Fred Rogers Quotes

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

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 the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer.

I want people to realize that they matter.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

What I bring is unique. No one else brings to the table what I am.

There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

When I was driving home, I just thought about the word 'special'. And I thought the last person who said that about me was my Aunt Helen. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.

If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

It's always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than... um, wait, than... something, maybe.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are.

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our strengths as disabilities and try to work around them in order to fit in. But anything that is peculiar to our makeup is precisely what we must pay the deepest attention to and lean on in our rise to mastery.

I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.