Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

In a democratic society we must live cooperatively, and serve the community in which we live, to the best of our ability. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

There are many people of mature age who are making this kind of major readjustment after having attained a place and profession in their own country and acquired substantial means. Stripped of their possessions and their money, they must start once more at the beginning. They must re-educate themselves, first in the language and second in the new customs. They must re-train themselves in the profession, which, in their own country, they had already mastered. To an older man, this is irksome, but in order to comform to the law and have an opportunity to start life once again, it must be done.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water.

You must try to understand truthfully what makes you do things or feel things. Until you have been able to face the truth about yourself you cannot be really sympathetic or understanding in regard to what happens to other people. But it takes courage to face yourself and to acknowledge what motivates you in the things you do.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

A real picture of any human being is interesting in itself, and it is especially interesting when we can follow the play of other personalities upon that human being and perhaps get a picture of a group of people and of the influence on them of the period in which they lived.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.