Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

If you learn to practice love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, you will know how to heal the illnesses of anger, sorrow, insecurity, sadness, hatred, loneliness, and unhealthy attachments.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population, that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out; and that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law. But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen; that the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it. The law is only a memorandum.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Life too near paralyses art.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.

I trust no one, not even myself.