Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

How many are the things I can do without!

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within and available to you now.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.