Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

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

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

What’s the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.