721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

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. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire.