Fred Rogers Quotes

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

My mother taught me caring and sensitivity towards the feelings of others, animals as well as humans. She gave me much good, practical advice for getting through life.

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.