Eleanor Roosevelt

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
• Be confident, not certain.
• Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure.
• Do one thing every day that scares you.
• Do one thing everyday that scares you.
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway.
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.
• Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
• Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
• Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
• Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
• I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
• I think somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
• If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
• If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.
• It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
• It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
• It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
• It's your life-but only if you make it so.
• Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
• Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
• Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
• Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
• Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• 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.
• People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
• Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
• The giving of love is an education in itself.
• 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.
• To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
• Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
• Work is always an antidote to depression.
• You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
• 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 you think you cannot do.
• You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
• You must do the things you think you cannot do.