Eleanor Roosevelt Famous Quotes

Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. – Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Famous Quotes part 2

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now. – Eleanor Roosevelt

You cannot do what you want to do unless you know the right way to do it. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – 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

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

What you don’t do can be a destructive force. – 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 his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now. – 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

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

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. – 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

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

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

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The only way to handle people is to love them, for we cannot change them. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s your life, but only if you make it so. – 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

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

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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. – Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest gift you can give another person is trust. – Eleanor Roosevelt