Eleanor Roosevelt

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

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.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with? When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will

New arts destroy the old.

His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.