Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Do one thing
that scares you everyday.

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

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

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

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

We do not have to become heroes overnight.
Just a step at a time,
meeting each thing that comes up,
seeing it is not a dreadful as it appeared,
discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Well behaved women
rarely make history.

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

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

He who loses money loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more,
He who loses faith, loses all.

You must do the thing 
you think you cannot do.

No one can make you feel inferior 
without your consent.

The purpose of life, after all,
is to love it,
to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear
for newer and richer experience.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure
you have no security unless you can live bravely,
excitingly imaginatively.

Your ambition should be to get as much life 
out of living as you possibly can,
as much enjoyment, as much interest,
as much experience, as much understanding.
Not simply be what is genreally called a "success."

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

A woman is like a tea bag;
you never know how strong it is
until it''s 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.

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

No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent.

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

Do what you feel in your heart to be right
- for you'll be criticised anyway.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence 
by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face do the thing
you think you cannot do.

Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

If someone betrays you once,
it's their fault.
If they betray you twice,
it's your fault.

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.

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

The giving of love is an educaton in itself.

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

Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.

What is to give light
must endure the burning.

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

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

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