721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Change means the unknown.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.