Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

If someone betrays you once, its their fault; if they betray you twice, its your fault.

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.

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.

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

Every day do something that frightens you.

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.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

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

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

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.