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.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

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

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.