Inspirational Quotations by Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Great minds discuss ideas;
    Average minds discuss events;
    Small minds discuss people.
    From Issue 22
  • To handle yourself, use your head;
    To handle others, use your heart.
    Anger is only one letter short of danger.
    From Issue 118
  • You gain strength, courage and confidence by every
    experience in which you really stop to look fear in
    the face ... you must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
    From Issue 124
  • Do one thing every day that scares you.
    From Issue 164
  • When you ceased to make a contribution you begin to die.
    From Issue 223
  • Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
    From Issue 229
  • You gain strength, courage, and confidence
    by every experience in which you
    really stop to look fear in the face.
    From Issue 263
  • 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 responsibility.
    From Issue 269
  • We do not have to become heroes overnight.
    Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up,
    seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared,
    discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
    From Issue 274
  • The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
    From Issue 303
  • You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
    From Issue 383
  • 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.
    From Issue 388
  • There is nothing to regret -- either for those who go or for those who are left behind.
    From Issue 391

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