Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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 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.
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.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
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.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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.
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.
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.
In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.
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.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
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.
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.
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.
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
As long as we are not actually destroyed, we can work to gain greater understanding of other peoples and to try to present to the peoples of the world the values of our own beliefs.
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want - for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
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 competence.
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. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
As life developed I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do - I just did it.
