One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTIt takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you.
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We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself.
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Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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Courage is exhilarating.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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A great deal of fear is a result of just not knowing.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.
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Understanding is a two-way street.
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I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.
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There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
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He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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