Eleanor Roosevelt Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994
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  People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational
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  It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press
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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year
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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1
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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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Strength

• A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Cancer, Loving Life

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". Book by Steven Covey, 1989.

• You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

• You must do the things you think you cannot do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  You Learn by Living ch. 2 (1960)

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Being Single

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.14, Westminster John Knox Press

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Travel, Women

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.

• Work is always an antidote to depression.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Depression, Antidote

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Justice, Political

• No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leader, Followers

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

• Courage is exhilarating.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Courageous, Exhilarating

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