Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Be confident, not certain

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.