Life Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All of life is a constant education.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is meant to be lived.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of…

— 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

I say to the young: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“I wish with all my heart that every child could be so imbued with a sense of the adventure of life that…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to…

— 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

“WE ALL create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life teaches you that you cannot attain real maturity until you are ready to accept this harsh knowledge, this limitation in yourself,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“A FEW years ago, someone asked me for my definition of a mature person. Here it is: “A mature person is one…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think everyone, at some time in his life, has this happen to him, comes face to face with the bitter realization…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long…

— Eleanor Roosevelt