Eleanor Roosevelt
18 quotations
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
What one has to do usually can be done.
I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Understanding is a two-way street.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.