721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

We must do that which we think we cannot.

No, I don't. Well, I mean, she's here, she's a presence, but we haven't been able to have a conversation.

I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their differing areas of concern for the welfare of their families and their world. Too often the great decisions are

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.