Eleanor Roosevelt

“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”

“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.”

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

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”

“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”

“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 is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”

“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”

“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.”

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

“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.”

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

“Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.”

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.”

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”

“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”