Fred Rogers Quotes

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

'First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. When it comes to figuring this out for yourself, the careful binary of work or life entirely misses the point.

What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.

I always ask the question, "Is this what I want in my life?

You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.

It's not interesting enough if you don't know who you are, what you want. You need to make educated decisions about your moves and talk to people who care about you. And you need to have people who will have your back.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

What you risk reveals what you value.

What you don't do is as important as what you do.

Put your choices in perspective.

Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.

You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a 'Tom Ford' jacket? What do I believe in?

As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are