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
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. - Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. - Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the things you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? - Eleanor Roosevelt
When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. - Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. - Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
What one has to do usually can be done. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could. - Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by 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
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt
We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you. - 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
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? - Eleanor Roosevelt
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. - Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived. - Eleanor Roosevelt
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. - Eleanor Roosevelt
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - 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. - Eleanor Roosevelt
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all. - Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for? - Eleanor Roosevelt
Never be bored, and you will never be boring. - Eleanor Roosevelt
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility. - 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. - Eleanor Roosevelt
America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our otherachievements amount to nothing. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Once I 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. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart - Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - 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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. - Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is defeated without until he is defeated within. - Eleanor Roosevelt