Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.”

“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.”

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

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?”

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

“There are no have-to's, just choices”

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ”

“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

“Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”

“Бъдещето принадлежи на тези, които вярват в красотата на мечтите си”

“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.”

“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.”

“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”

“In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.”

“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”

“The giving of love is an education in itself.”

“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.”

“All of life is a constant education.”

“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”

“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”

“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”

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

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”

“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”

“It's your life-but only if you make it so.”

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”

“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”

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

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

“No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”

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

“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.”

“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”

“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.”

“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”

“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.”

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...”

“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“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. ”

“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.”

“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”