Eleanor Roosevelt

There are no have-to’s, just choices.

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

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

I am the captain of my soul.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.

The world is its own magic.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

The first wealth is health.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

All successful men have agreed in one thing – they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.