Roosevelt, Eleanor Quotes


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

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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.