Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

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

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.

I heartily accept the motto,That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after.

The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.