Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Top 25 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes and Sayings
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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.
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
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.
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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.