Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was me...

Actors are one family over the entire world.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you...

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing t...

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the ...

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely...

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the thi...

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the ...

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ...

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your h...

You always admire what you really don't understand.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best yo...

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly...

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in i...

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater d...

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexis...

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...

What one has to do usually can be done.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

It isn't enough to talk about peace one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it o...

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena...

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people ...

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As lon...

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be be...

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a c...

...Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put...

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether pe...

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the pe...

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds...

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone els...

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a res...

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear ...

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo...

America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater num...

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

...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with al...

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean somet...

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl...

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone ...

Change means the unknown.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that ...

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn...

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My ans...

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. An...

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...

More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to m...

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be...

Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go thro...

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critic...

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! W...

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...

I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.

There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometim...

In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And ...

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to m...