721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

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

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

People who ‘view with alarm’ never build anything.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

Get out of the way as quickly as you’re not needed.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future – for generations who didn’t know the man and didn’t know the era in which he lived.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

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!’