Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

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.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

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

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.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

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

Curiosity must be kept alive.

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.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

We must do that which we think we cannot.

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

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

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

I never waste time looking back.

If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it.

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.