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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes



Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt - (23 quotes)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Adventure category:

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 a competence. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Aging category:

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Children category:

At the birth of a child, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Choices category:

Somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Criticism category:

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Criticism category:

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Determination category:

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. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Experience category:

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

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Fear category:

Every day do something that frightens you. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Friendship category:

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Friendship category:

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

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Future category:

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Gender category:

Women are like teabags, you never know their true strength until you put them in hot water. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Gender category:

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

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Impossibilities category:

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Individuality category:

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Intellect category:

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Joy category:

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. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Questions category:

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

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Responsibility category:

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)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Strength category:

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Words category:

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.' (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Eleanor Roosevelt - From the Worry category:

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. (Eleanor Roosevelt)