Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

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.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. … We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

The purpose of life after all is to live it.

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

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.