40 Best Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

 40 Best Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

 

Understanding is a two-way street.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

There is nothing to regret.. either for those who go or for those who are left behind.

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

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.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

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

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

Every age is an unknown country.

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

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.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

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

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

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

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

Do one thing every day that scares you.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. 

When you 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 choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do... the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

To leave the world richer.. that is the ultimate success.