Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

“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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“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.”

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“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 should be curiosity.”

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.”

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

“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.”

“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”

“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”

“What one has to do usually can be done.”

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

“In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.”

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

“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”

“Understanding is a two-way street.”

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”

“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”

“It is not more vacation we need; it is more vocation.”