Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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.
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
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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
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 experiences behind him.
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
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] 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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one from the beginning of time has had security.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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!
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
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] 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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one from the beginning of time has had security.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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!
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
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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 others."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
For 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
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Change means the unknown.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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!'
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
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
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
Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.
Eleanor Roosevelt