Fred Rogers on comparison
Fred Rogers50 quotes“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.”
Filed under
More from Fred Rogers
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
Fred RogersFred Rogers If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.
Fred RogersFred Rogers The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
Fred RogersFred Rogers One of my wise teachers, Dr. Orr, told me, ‘There is only one thing evil cannot stand, and that is forgiveness.
Fred RogersFred Rogers Real strength has to do with helping others.
Fred RogersFred Rogers The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
Fred RogersFred Rogers Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.
Fred RogersFred Rogers Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Fred RogersFred Rogers Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
Fred RogersFred Rogers You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.
Fred RogersFred Rogers There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
Fred RogersFred Rogers Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
Fred RogersFred Rogers Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
Fred RogersFred Rogers Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
Fred RogersFred Rogers When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
Fred RogersFred Rogers Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.
Fred RogersFred Rogers
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on comparison
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.
Dwight L. MoodyDwight L. Moody Comparisons are odious.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
Denis WaitleyDenis Waitley How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.
Antonie van LeeuwenhoekAntonie van Leeuwenhoek It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
Francis CrickFrancis Crick Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
ChanakyaChanakya There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller
Keep exploring
More American Authors
