Eleanor Roosevelt

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.