Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

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.

There are no have-to’s, just choices.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.