Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

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

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.

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

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

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

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 is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

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

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

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

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

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

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.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

When you 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.'

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted

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

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

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

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

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.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

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

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

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

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

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

Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

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.

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.