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.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

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

Work is always an antidote to depression.

Be confident, not certain

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.