721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

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

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.