Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

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

If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.

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.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

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

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

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

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably

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.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me `understand` something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

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

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

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

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.

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

It was a wife`s duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

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

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

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father

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.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Women are like teabags. We don`t know our true strength until we are in hot water!