Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

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

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

The way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;

It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.