Eleanor Roosevelt

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

The amount of people in this world who are here to do something great far outweighs the rest.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

We are wiser than we know.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.