1. True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

2. The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

3. Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

4. When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

5. Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

6. 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

7. The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

8. Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

9. It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

10. The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

11. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

12. Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

13. I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

14. 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

15. Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

16. I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

17. If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

18. No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

19. Work is always an antidote to depression.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

20. A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

21. Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

22. The giving of love is an education in itself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

24. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else, you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

25. 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

26. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

27. I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

28. A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

29. Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

30. Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

31. 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

32. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

33. 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

34. Our own land and our own flag cannot be replaced by any other land or any other flag. But you can join with other nations, under a joint flag, to accomplish something good for the world that you cannot accomplish alone.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

35. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

36. A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

37. 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

38. You must do the things you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

39. Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

40. Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

41. 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

42. There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

43. No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

44. Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

45. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

46. 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

47. Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

- Eleanor Roosevelt

48. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

49. You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

50. It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

51. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

52. We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

53. 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

54. 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

55. Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

56. 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

57. 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

58. When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

59. Anger is one letter short of danger.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

60. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

61. 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

62. The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

63. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

64. 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

65. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

66. When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

67. 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

68. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

69. 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

70. Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

71. When you 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

72. You never know anyone until you marry them.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

73. People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

74. 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

75. The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

76. I never waste time looking back.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

77. The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

78. It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

79. I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

80. I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few.

- Eleanor Roosevelt