Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgment.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Wake up, you’ve been sleeping. Take up your bed and walk. Stop blaming other people. Oh, it’s nobody else’s fault.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct – nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

When the romance is gone, if it’s always you left searching for it, maybe it’s time to stop looking, and start searching for someone new, and start a new romantic journey.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.