Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

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

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.