Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

There are no have-to's, just choices

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

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.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.