Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams...”

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”

“There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows...”

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

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right for youll be criticized anyway.”

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

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

“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.”

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

“It's your life-but only if you make it so.”

“Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”

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

“Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.”

“The Diary of a Young Girl - This book fills you with sadness. I like this book”

“Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”

“No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”

“Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?”