Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the kind of things you think you cannot do.

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

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

Do what you feel in your heart to be right―for you’ll be criticized anyway.

The greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

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

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

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

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

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.

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

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.

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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.

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.

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

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.'

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

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

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

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

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.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.