Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes – Wisdom and Inspiration from an Iconic First Lady

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You must do things you think you cannot do.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

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

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

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.

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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes – Wisdom and Inspiration from an Iconic First Lady part 2

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.

The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

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

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Happiness is not derived from a life without problems, but rather from one’s ability to deal with them.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world, no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.