Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

THE GREATEST GIVE YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS AN IMAGINATION

so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.