Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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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
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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

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Strength, Encouraging

• 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”

• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Humility

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.63, Westminster John Knox Press

• 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

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Happiness, Depression

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

• Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Character, Building

• Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.29, Westminster John Knox Press

• Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Children, Real

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Success, Fear

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Happiness, This Too Shall Pass

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

• Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Flavor, Ifs

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. 80), 1963.

• When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Blow, Rich Or Poor

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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