Eleanor Roosevelt

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

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

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

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

Courage is exhilarating.

I thus free myself from the illness of ego-clinging.

The person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn’t, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn’t likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Energy doesn’t lie so trust those vibes you’re getting.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.