Eleanor Roosevelt

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Dare to think for yourself.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love’s light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.