The Beauty of Our Dreams | 51 Famous Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Eleanor Roosevelt set the standard of American First Ladies being involved in social issues, even remaining in politics and human rights long after Theodore Roosevelt’s death.
Below we have featured Mrs. Roosevelt’s most famous quotes, which will illustrate how she became renowned as one of the wisest and most inspirational women in modern history.
Table of Contents
- Famous Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
- Inspirational Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt’s Quotes on Fear
- Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes On Images
Famous Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
- You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. Eleanor Roosevelt
- You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. Eleanor Roosevelt
- It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Eleanor Roosevelt
- When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. Eleanor Roosevelt
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come. Eleanor Roosevelt
- If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. Eleanor Roosevelt
- No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within. Eleanor Roosevelt
- The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now. Eleanor Roosevelt
- The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt
- With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all. Eleanor Roosevelt
- No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. Eleanor Roosevelt
- It’s your life – but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being. Eleanor Roosevelt
- In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt
- When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. Eleanor Roosevelt
- What you don’t do can be a destructive force. Eleanor Roosevelt
- What one has to do usually can be done. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Understanding is a two-way street. Eleanor Roosevelt
- We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world. Eleanor Roosevelt
- I never waste time looking back. Eleanor Roosevelt
- I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. Eleanor Roosevelt
- The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. Eleanor Roosevelt
- It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. Eleanor Roosevelt
- It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
- I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! Eleanor Roosevelt
- I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. Eleanor Roosevelt
- A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren’t paying attention to you. Work is always an antidote to depression. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Anger is one letter short of danger. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done. Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Quotes on Fear
- We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. Eleanor Roosevelt
- I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him. Eleanor Roosevelt
- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt
- The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most. Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes On Images
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