Fred Rogers Quotes

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

The best thing you can do is learn from those mistakes so that you continue to get better. That's the management style or leadership style I believe in, which is push people to their limit such that they can become better than they thought they could be. That certainly has helped me.

As soon as you seek to inspire others, it inspires the best in you.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

That's what I like to do: bring out the best in people.

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

If you want to inspire the world, first inspire yourself.

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

All I need as payment is a smile. That just really pushes me forward so that I'm always capturing the next opportunity to develop myself.

If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as a society. I surround myself with smart, beautiful, passionate, driven, ambitious women. Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you rather than threaten you and make you feel like you’re immediately being compared to them. The only thing I compare myself to is me, two years ago, or me one year ago.

Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.

I do believe in self-help.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.