Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

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.

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

To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Our best history is still poetry.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.