Eleanor Roosevelt quotes.
All 42 quotations by Eleanor Roosevelt in our collection.
“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
“Work is always an antidote to depression.”
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“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.”
“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
“No one can hurt you without your consent.”
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
“Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”
“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
“Be confident, not certain.”
“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.”
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure.”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
“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 is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
“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.”
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”
“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.”
“Be flexible, but stick to your principles.”
“Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.”
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
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