Eleanor Roosevelt

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

All of life is a constant education.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

If you learn to practice love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, you will know how to heal the illnesses of anger, sorrow, insecurity, sadness, hatred, loneliness, and unhealthy attachments.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population, that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out; and that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law. But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; that the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it. The law is only a memorandum.