I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELTIn the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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Be confident, not certain
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It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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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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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
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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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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.
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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.
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Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face
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Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
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You always admire what you really don’t understand.
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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Only I can let you disrepect me!
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Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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Work is always an antidote to depression.
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What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
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You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
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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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