Eleanor Roosevelt

Showing quotations 1 to 17 of 17 total A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. Eleanor RooseveltBeautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Eleanor RooseveltDo 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 Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor RooseveltGreat minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. Eleanor RooseveltI could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. Eleanor RooseveltI think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. Eleanor Roosevelt If someone betrays you once, it?s their fault; if they betray you twice, it?s your fault. Eleanor RooseveltIt is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. Eleanor RooseveltJustice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor RooseveltLearn from the mistakes of others. You can?t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor RooseveltLife was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor RooseveltOne 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 RooseveltThe 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 RooseveltYou 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 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt, 'This Is My Story,' 1937People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

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