Eleanor Roosevelt

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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

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.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius’s violins without Antonio.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

If people misunderstand you, do not worry…it is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is…their own thoughts.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

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

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.