Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

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

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

Understanding is a two-way street.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

All mankind love a lover.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

The self divides into ten billion distinct illuminating spirits. Distinguish these without falling into names and classifications.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.