“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“I’m glad I never feel important, it does complicate life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than by defeat.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Change means the unknown.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“What you don’t do can be a destructive force.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
Eleanor Roosevelt