Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat and human rights activist. Here are best Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes to Inspire you.

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

1. “Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
2. “Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
3. “It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
4. “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.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
5. “Anger is one letter short of danger.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

6. “Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
8. “Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
9. “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
10. “Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

11. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
12. “You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
13. “Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren’t paying attention to you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
14. “Work is always an antidote to depression.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
15. “The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
16. “The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
17. “Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
18. “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
19. “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
20. “I never waste time looking back.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

21. “We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
22. “I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do…” – Eleanor Roosevelt
23. “Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a ‘success.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
24. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
25. “Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
26. “I believe anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
27. “Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
28. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
29. “Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
30. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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31. “It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
32. “What you don’t do can be a destructive force.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
33. “Choose a challenge instead of competence.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
34. “All of life is a constant education.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
35. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

36. “Courage is exhilarating.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
37. “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
38. “It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
39. “Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
40. “Understanding is a two-way street.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Best Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

41. “Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
42. “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.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
43. “Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
44. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
45. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
46. “The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
47. “Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
48. “If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
49. “When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
50. “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Famous Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

51. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
52. “One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
53. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
54. “My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
55. “A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

56. “When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
57. “What one has to do usually can be done.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
58. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
59. “Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
60. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Motivational Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

61. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
62. “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
63. “I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
64. “I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
65. “A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
66. “I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!” – Eleanor Roosevelt
67. “The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
68. “Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
69. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
70. “Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

71. “We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
72. “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.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
73. “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
74. “If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
75. “You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
76. “Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
77. “Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
78. “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
79. “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product of a life well lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
80. “Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspiring Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

81. “Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
82. “Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
83. “The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
84. “Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
85. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

86. “When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
87. “Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
88. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
89. “Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
90. “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Popular Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

91. “What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?” – Eleanor Roosevelt
92. “No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
93. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
94. “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
95. “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
96. “One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
97. “Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one can not be friends with anyone else in the world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
98. “The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
99.  “The giving of love is an education in itself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt