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.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

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

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.