Quotes By 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.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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 should be curiosity.

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.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.