black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Fred Rogers

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
FRED ROGERS

Freedom Hard Honesty Pain Truth Try Worth
Love is like infinity: You can’t have more or less infinity, and you can’t compare two things to see if they’re “equally infinite.” Infinity just is, and that’s the way I think love is, too.
FRED ROGERS

Comparison Equality Infinite Love
Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you’re thinking or feeling unless you share it.
FRED ROGERS

Choose Imagination Private Share Thinking
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
FRED ROGERS

Acceptance Active Love Noun Perfection Person She Strive Struggle
Life is for service.
FRED ROGERS

Life One Liner Service
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
FRED ROGERS

Discover Effort Lifetime Ourselves Truth Work Worth
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
FRED ROGERS

Different Loneliness Solitude
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
FRED ROGERS

Human Manage Mention
People have said ‘don’t cry’ to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is ‘I’m too uncomfortable when you show feelings.
FRED ROGERS

Cry Emotional People Uncomfortable
I hope you’re proud of yourself for the times you’ve said “yes,” when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.
FRED ROGERS

Help Proud Time Work Yourself
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
FRED ROGERS

Difference Life Love Space Trust World
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
FRED ROGERS

Clue Human Being Perfection Situation
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
FRED ROGERS

Assignment Attractive Goodness Tough Try
Relationships are like dances in which people try to find whatever happens to be the mutual rhythm in their lives.
FRED ROGERS

Dance Finding Mutual People Relationship Rhythm Try
Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.
FRED ROGERS

Capacity Forgiveness Life Live Root Skill
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
FRED ROGERS

Beginning Ending Inspirational Life Philosophy Thinking

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Fred Rogers Quotes