Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

All of life is a constant education.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

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.

Courage is exhilarating.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Exploring the mysteries of myself and the world. Sensual, powerful, wise… on my path…

If you want to get what you want give up being right.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it

I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We’re capable of incredible things. At times that realization is frightening.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.