721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

I think as the century closes draws to a close and we look back on public figures, ... we realize what a giant Eleanor Roosevelt was.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

It is neither unusual nor new for me to have Negro friends, nor is it unusual for me to have found my friends among all races and religions of people.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.