Eleanor Roosevelt

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”

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

“It isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one must work at it.”

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

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

“I miss you greatly dear. The nicest time of day is when I write to you. You have a stormier time than I do but I miss you as much, I think. . . . Please keep most of your heart in Washington as long as I’m here for most of mine is with you!”

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

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

“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story”

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

“I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.”

“What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail?”

“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.”

“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”

“Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.”

“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”

“There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.”

“The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.”

“I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.”

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

“Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.”

“I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”

“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”

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

“Understanding is a two-way street.”

“It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.”

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living d...”

“Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”

“Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'”

“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“What one has to do usually can be done.”

“Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”

“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.”

“If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.”

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

“Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love o...”

“Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct.”

“The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.”

“No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.”

“This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!”

“This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!”

“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”

“Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.”

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

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

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

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

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

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”

“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

“Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”

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

“I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.”

“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give”

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

“All of life is a constant education.”

“As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.”

“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.”

“Actors are one family over the entire world.”

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

“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.”