Eleanor Roosevelt

I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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

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

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do what is right.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.