Fred Rogers Quotes

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero