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Roosevelt: Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
- You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- 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.
- Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
- You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude
- If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
- 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.
- Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
- No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
- 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.
- Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
- To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
- 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.
- With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- 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.
- What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
- Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- 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.
- You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
- Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
- Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
- 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.
- Work is always an antidote to depression.
- I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
- When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
- 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.
- 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.
- Courage is exhilarating.
- There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
- 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
- The giving of love is an education in itself.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- All of life is a constant education.
- It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
- 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.
- 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.
- There are no have-to’s, just choices
- Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
- 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.
- I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
- 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.
- What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
- The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.
- He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Be confident, not certain
- There is nothing to fear except fear itself.
- If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
- Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. 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.
- Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
- Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
- 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.
- It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
- 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 which you think you cannot do.
- A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
- Do the thing that scares you
- You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people
- You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.