Eleanor Roosevelt
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'Collection: Strong Women
Every day do something that frightens you.Collection: Fear
Whatever come we have to meet it.Collection: Miscellaneous
Work is always an antidote to depression.Collection: Inspirational
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.Collection: Sleep
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.Collection: Inspirational
You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor RooseveltCollection: Admiration
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.Collection: Inspirational
One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.Collection: Ideas
Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.Collection: Persistence
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.Collection: Respect
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.Collection: Men
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.Collection: Life
I never waste time looking back.Collection: Success
The most important word in the English language is hope.Collection: Hope
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young" he is; 'adult' he is not.Collection: Taken
To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.Collection: Teenager
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.Collection: Moving
In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.Collection: Business
For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.Collection: Confidence
The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.Collection: Children
I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.Collection: Work
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.Collection: About Strength
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.Collection: Philosophical
Do one thing every day that scares you.Collection: New Year
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.Collection: Integrity
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.Collection: Friendship
Poor minds talk about people. Average minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas.Collection: Ideas
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.Collection: Romantic
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...Collection: Rights
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.Collection: Attitude
Anger is one letter short of danger.Collection: Anger
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.Collection: Home
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can’t be done.Collection: Intelligent
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‘understand’ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.Collection: Country
Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time.Collection: Firsts
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”Collection: Leadership
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music – that would be rest.Collection: Book
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.Collection: Real
So I took an interest in politics, but I don’t know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife’s duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.Collection: Book
I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few.Collection: Country