Eleanor Roosevelt

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

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

No one can make us feel inferior without our consent.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right for youll be criticized anyways.

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

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

I think at a childs birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift would be curiosity.

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

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

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

Character building begins in infancy and continues until death.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

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.

To be a citizen in a democracy a human being must be given a healthy start.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

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.

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a byproduct.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing.

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

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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.

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.

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

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

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. Its only when shes in hot water that you realize how strong she is.

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.

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

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

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

A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

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.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

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.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

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.

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

Never be bored and you will never be boring.

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

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

What one has to do usually can be done.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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

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

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

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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

You wouldnt worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

A good woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.

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.

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

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I think at a childs birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

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

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

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

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.

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.

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand

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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Happiness is not a goal it is a by product.

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.

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.

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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

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

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

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and the best you have to give.

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

No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless good effort is made on both sides to keep it so.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

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.