721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Life has got to be lived – that’s all there is to it.

Choose a challenge instead of competence.

So I took an interest in politics, but I don’t know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife’s duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a ‘success.’

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn’t it?

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.