Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

You know you’re a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

How hard you work matters more than how much you make.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.