Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do one thing everyday that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

“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 death.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Once I 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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Work is always an antidote to depression.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“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 would be curiosity.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

“No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“It's your life-but only if you make it so.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“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. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Courage is exhilarating.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“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.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“All of life is a constant education.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“There are no have-to's, just choices”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face….You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudce. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You always admire what you really don't understand.
- Eleanor Roosevelt”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“What you don't do can be a destructive force.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“People are like tea bags. You find out how strong they are when you put them in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Weak minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“THE GREATEST GIVE YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS AN IMAGINATION”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Budućnost pripada onima koji veruju u lepotu svojih snova.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Ten, kto stratí peniaze, toho stratí dosť. Ten, kto stratí priateľa, toho stratí ešte viac. Všetko však stratí ten, kto zahodil nádej.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt