Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Be confident, not certain

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

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose – some for cash and some for political influence. We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?