Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes to Inspire Your Greatness

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.

Be confident, not certain.

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

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.

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

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

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.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

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.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? .

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

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