Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
First Lady of the United States and a driving force behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt's writings champion courage, dignity and doing the thing you think you cannot do. Below are 16 of the most loved Eleanor Roosevelt quotes, chosen from across their works and letters. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
A woman is like a tea bag — you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
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.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticised anyway.
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.