Eleanor Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

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.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

The self divides into ten billion distinct illuminating spirits. Distinguish these without falling into names and classifications.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Appearances matter – and remember to smile.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.