Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Life
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
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To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
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What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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Every time you meet a situation you 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 were before.
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A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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It's your life-but only if you make it so.
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Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
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Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
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Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
- Born: October 11, 1884
- Died: November 7, 1962
- Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States
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