Eleanor Roosevelt

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

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

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

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

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up.

Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Bravery is more important than perfection.- Kanye West

Which is worse? The wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.