“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl’s best friend.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not enough to just exist, one must do something worthwhile with one’s life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The giving of love is an education in itself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The world of the future must be based on the dignity and worth of the individual, and all people must be treated with equality and justice.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“We need to learn to think differently, to discover what is true and what is false, and to learn to think for ourselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you want to achieve something, you can’t just sit back and hope it will happen. You have to make it happen.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only thing to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Women are like teabags. We don’t know our own strength until we are in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The ability to convert ideals into practical reality is the true test of leadership.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The best way to influence people is to make them feel good about themselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only thing that lies between us and the future is fear.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The world of tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not enough to just exist, we must be determined to live fully.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You have to do the best with what God gave you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“I have learned that I can do anything I want to do, if I want to do it badly enough.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Eleanor Roosevelt