Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

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

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

All colors will agree in the dark.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means – one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.