“Eleanor Roosevelt”
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt