Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you NO who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt