Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

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

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.