721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of the work that’s done in the world gets done by people who weren’t feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you’re in nonprofit.

In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one’s position, state it bravely, and then act boldly.

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.'

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do

Believe in yourself. You must do that which you think you cannot.