I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTI could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTI 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.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTYou gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTFriendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTIf someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTLife is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTNever mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTYour life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTIt’s your life-but only if you make it so.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTThe giving of love is an education in itself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTWhat you don’t do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTRemember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTMany people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTOnly a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTPeople grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT