Eleanor Roosevelt

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

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.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

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

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Genius Borrows nobly.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Nothing is real.