Eleanor Roosevelt quotes

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through
the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever
after you are freer than you were before.
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

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most
useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt