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.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Happiness, Joy
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Being Ourselves, Obligation
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
—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
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Nature, Life, Living
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Communication
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. “Love they neighbor as thyself.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Peace
What one has to do usually can be done.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Necessity
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Freedom
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Audiences
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Immortality
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Failures, Mistakes
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Perception, Attitude
If I feel depressed, I go to work. Work is always an antidote to depression.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Habits
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Mistakes, Failures
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. The fatal thing is the rejection. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Life and Living, How to Live, Living, Life, Curiosity, Living Well
The only advantage in not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Nation, Nationalism, Nationality, Nations
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Awareness, Being Ourselves, Self-Knowledge, Decisions, Self-Discovery, Discovery
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
Topics: Books, Reading
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Energy, Planning
Do one thing every day that scares you.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Topics: Life, Doing Your Best, Acceptance, Effort, Courage
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
Topics: Courage
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Character
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Hope
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
Topics: Courage, Individuality, Critics, Criticism, Being True to Yourself, Art
A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Topics: Water
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