In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTA stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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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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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
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Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people.
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Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
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You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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Understanding is a two-way street.
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
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One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
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Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
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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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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
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Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
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Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
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Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
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