Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission

There is a wonderful word, why? , that children use. All children. When they stop using it, the reason, too often, is that no one bothered to answer them, no one tried to keep alive one of the most important attributes a person can have: interest in the world around him.

Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

Upon the death of her mother-in-law, Elearnor Roosevelt said, "It is truly a tragedy of life to have spent 35 years with someone and upon her death, not to give it a second thought.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

A real picture of any human being is interesting in itself, and it is especially interesting when we can follow the play of other personalities upon that human being and perhaps get a picture of a group of people and of the influence on them of the period in which they lived.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

Do one thing every day that scares you."-Eleanor Roosevelt 6/3/17

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, "It can't be done.

If you care enough about certain things and work for them, I think you are bound to find them in the people you are with.

It is important that women think beyond the mere moment through which we are passing and acquaint themselves with all phases of life and conditions in our own country. I think we shall have fulfilled our mission well if when our time comes to give up active wok in the world we can say we never saw a wrong without trying to right it; we never intentionally left unhappiness where a little effort would have turned it into happiness, and we were more critical of ourselves than we were of others.

We must all face an unpalatable fact that we have, too often, a tendency to skim over; we proceed on the assumption that all men want freedom. This is not as true as we would like it to be. There are many men and women who are far happier when they have relinquished their freedom, when someone else guides them, makes their decisions for them, takes the responsibility for them and for their actions. They don't want to make up their minds. They don't want to stand on their own feet.

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

Unless indoctrinated, a child is too logical to understand discrimination.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

I loved it…I simply ate it up.

There are two kinds of snobbishness: One is that of the man who has had a good many opportunities and looks down on those who lack them. The other is rarely understood, that of the self-made man who glories in his success in overcoming difficulties and admires greatly people who have achieved the things he considers of importance.

o one can make you feel inferior without your consent

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

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Todo el tiempo, día a día, tenemos que continuar luchando por la Libertad de Religión, la Libertad de Expresión y la Libertad para vivir sin miseria, por todas aquellas cosas que deben ser ganadas en la paz, así como en la guerra" (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Niemand kann Dir ein Minderwertigkeitsgefühl aufzwingen ohne Deine Bereitschaft dazu.

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

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may 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 ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.