ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

"The giving of love is an education in itself."

"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."

"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it."

"Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge"

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves."

"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do"

"Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do."

"If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively."

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."

"If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault."

"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."

"A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist."

"You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude."

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

"Only I can let you disrepect me!"

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right."

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

"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start."

"You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be."

"I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you."

"He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know."

"All of life is a constant education."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway."

"When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense."

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

"If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time."

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

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

"If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all."

"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death."

"What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?"

"You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress."

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."

"Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves."

"We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself."

"When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone."

"There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep."

"Courage is exhilarating."