Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
– 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
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
– 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 uotmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosev’elt
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
– 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
You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You never know anyone until you marry them.
– Eleanor Roosevelt.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
– 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
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to the people who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Work is always an antidote to depression.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
– 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