Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

It Takes as Much Energy to Wish as it Does to Plan.

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love they neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. The followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.

...all big changes in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

I could not, at any age, be content to make my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Great minds discuss idea; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes".

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

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.

Women are like tea bags, they don't know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

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