You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a goal. It's a by-product of a life well lived. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape… — eleanor roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
