Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

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

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.

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 responsibility.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

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