Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

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


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.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Do one thing everyday that scares you.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


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


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


It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


The giving of love is an education in itself.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


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


When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Work is always an antidote to depression.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


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


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.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


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


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


No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


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


More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than by defeat. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


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


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


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


With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Courage is exhilarating.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


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


Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudce. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


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