Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

All of life is a constant education.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

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.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

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.

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

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

There are no have-to's, just choices

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Be confident, not certain

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.