3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt 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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
3 December 2020 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 should be curiosity.
