Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

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

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Fear came in so much in my life that it did everything but completely stop me.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

There’s an old German proverb to the effect that fear makes the wolf bigger than he is,and that is true.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Don’t be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

My greatest fear is getting bored.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.