Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetimeâ€™s work, but itâ€™s worth the effort.

Fred Rogers

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The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

Fred Rogers

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Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

Fred Rogers

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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 Rogers

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I donâ€™t think anyone can grow unless heâ€™s loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

Fred Rogers

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In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Fred Rogers

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I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Fred Rogers

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We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

Fred Rogers

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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, â€˜Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

Fred Rogers

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Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

Fred Rogers

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Love isnâ€™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

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The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and theyâ€™re generally not the ones being touted in the news.

Fred Rogers

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Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.

Fred Rogers

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The thing I remember best about successful people Iâ€™ve met all through the years is their obvious delight in what theyâ€™re doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what theyâ€™re doing, and they love it in front of others.

Fred Rogers

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Itâ€™s not so much what we have in this life that matters. Itâ€™s what we do with what we have.

Fred Rogers

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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 Rogers

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I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.

Loren Eiseley

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Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

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As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Henry Van Dyke

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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Henry Van Dyke

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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Henry Van Dyke

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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Henry Van Dyke

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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke

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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Henry Van Dyke

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Van Dyke

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Henry Van Dyke

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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Henry Van Dyke

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Henry Van Dyke

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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Henry Van Dyke

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What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Henry Van Dyke

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Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Henry Van Dyke

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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

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It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Henry Van Dyke

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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Henry Van Dyke

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke

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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

Barbara Jordan

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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Barbara Jordan

America Good People Promise

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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Barbara Jordan

Afternoon Better Blankets Cookies

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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

Barbara Jordan

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I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Barbara Jordan

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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Barbara Jordan

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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

Barbara Jordan

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I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

Barbara Jordan

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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

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571 Educator Quotes

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetimeâ€™s work, but itâ€™s worth the effort.

Fred Rogers

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

Fred Rogers

Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

Fred 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 Rogers

I donâ€™t think anyone can grow unless heâ€™s loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

Fred Rogers

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Fred Rogers

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Fred Rogers

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

Fred Rogers

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, â€˜Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

Fred Rogers

Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

Fred Rogers

Love isnâ€™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

The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and theyâ€™re generally not the ones being touted in the news.

Fred Rogers

Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.

Fred Rogers

The thing I remember best about successful people Iâ€™ve met all through the years is their obvious delight in what theyâ€™re doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what theyâ€™re doing, and they love it in front of others.

Fred Rogers

Fred 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 Rogers

I no longer cared about survival...I merely loved.

Loren Eiseley

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Henry Van Dyke

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Henry Van Dyke

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Henry Van Dyke

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Van Dyke

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Henry Van Dyke

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Henry Van Dyke

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Henry Van Dyke

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Henry Van Dyke

Henry Van Dyke

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Henry Van Dyke

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.