Fred Rogers Quotes

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

I'm a very emotional person.

I'm an emotional person.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.

A lot of my friends and the people who know me know I'm a feeling person. I feel, deeply.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

I am an emotional person.

I'm just attracted to people for who they are on the inside.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

For me the most important thing is being a really good person, and that doesn’t depend on what you do on stage, that depends on how you treat people when you’re offstage.

When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.

... humility + humor = humanity.