Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes (77+)

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

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.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.

It is not enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.