Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

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

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

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.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become its prey.

Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.