Inspirational Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever come we have to meet it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Comparison is the thief of all joy.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We need our radicals.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Do something everyday that scares you,

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If you must compromise, compromise up.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is exhilarating.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We must do that which we think we cannot.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity must be kept alive.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Some friends leave footprints in your heart

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you.…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Work is always an antidote to depression.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There are no have-to's, just choices

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide,

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt