721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

Do something everyday that scares you,

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’