Eleanor Roosevelt quotes page 1

1884-1962, First Lady of the United States from 1933-1945, author and speaker

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your
heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Well behaved women rarely make history.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes courage to love but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love
generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut
themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore
shrink until life is a mere living death.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If someone betrays you, it's their fault. If they betray you twice; it's your fault.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make
a life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.
Eleanor Roosevelt

All big changes in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like teabags: you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with
anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains
that people fight these wars.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible.
Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the
domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a
happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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