Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Wisdom

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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Hope

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.'

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Wisdom

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life

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

Wisdom

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

Success

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

Courage

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Success

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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom

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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Love

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Wisdom

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Wisdom

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Success

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Wisdom