Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

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 tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our otherachievements amount to nothing.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

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

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. 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

...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves.

Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.

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

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 would be curiosity.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

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

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

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

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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.