Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

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

There are no have-to’s, just choices.

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

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

How can one be well…when one suffers morally?

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

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

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.

Friends are true Twins in Soul; they Sympathize in every thing, and have the Love and Aversion. One is not happy without the other, nor can either of them be miserable alone. As if they could change Bodies, they take their turns in Pain as well as in Pleasure; relieving one another in their most adverse Conditions.What one enjoys, the other cannot Want. Like the Primitive Christians, they have all things in common, and no Property but in one another.