721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.