Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Courage is exhilarating.

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.