721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that, you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

ត្រូវចងចាំថាគ្មាននរណាម្នាក់អាចធ្វើឲ្យអ្នកមានអារម្មណ៍មិនល្អដោយគ្មានការយល់ព្រមរបស់អ្នកឡើយ។

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.