Eleanor Roosevelt

90 quotes

"Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"What one has to do usually can be done."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Anger is one letter away from danger."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

"...marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

"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 would be curiosity."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one from the beginning of time has had security."

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

"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

"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You always admire what you really don't understand."

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt