Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"No man is defeated without until he is defeated within."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
-Eleanor Roosevelt in Curiosity quotes.

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt in Beauty quotes.

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
-Eleanor Roosevelt in Happiness quotes.

"A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
-Eleanor Roosevelt in Water quotes.

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

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
-Eleanor Roosevelt in Obligation quotes.

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."
-Eleanor Roosevelt in Life quotes.

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
-Eleanor Roosevelt in Character quotes.

"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."
-Eleanor Roosevelt in Experience quotes.

"Never be bored, and you will never be boring."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
-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 in Experience quotes.

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

"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."
-Eleanor Roosevelt in Age quotes.

"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all."
-Eleanor Roosevelt in Faith quotes.

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

"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 in Criticism quotes.

"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 in Confidence quotes.

"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 in Courage quotes.