Eleanor Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

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

Work is always an antidote to depression.

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.

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

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

The only way to know is to live, learn, and grow.

Here’s the thing: the world is not going to issue you an engraved invitation to this life.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

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

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Better is the enemy of good.