Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Subjects Eleanor Roosevelt spoke about

Admiration Assertiveness Character Critics and Criticism Dreams Gossip Happiness Immortality Impossibility Inferiority Life and Living Nations Necessity Opposition Planning Self discovery Understanding Work