Eleanor Roosevelt

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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

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.

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.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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 experience behind him.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

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.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

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

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

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 should be curiosity.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!