Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Inspirational
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A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.
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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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Anger is one letter short of danger.
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You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
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Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. 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.
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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If you must compromise, compromise up.
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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
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When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted
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Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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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.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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There are no have-to's, just choices
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
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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.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
- Born: October 11, 1884
- Died: November 7, 1962
- Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States
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