Eleanor Roosevelt

1. 20Quotes from ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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

3. It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

4. 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.

5. Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

6. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

7. Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

8. 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.

9. 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. Somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

10. Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

11. You not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

12. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

18. Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

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

20. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

21. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

22. Beauty Oxford.