Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is exhilarating.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

A hen is only a egg’s way of making another egg.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

I was born upon thy bank, river, my blood flows in thy stream, and thou meanderest forever. At the bottom of my dream.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

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

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.