Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal. It's a by-product.

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

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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.

A mature person is one who is 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 all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably.