~ Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility.

[MysteRy]

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

[MysteRy]

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'

[MysteRy]

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 experiences behind him.

[MysteRy]

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it!

[MysteRy]

I could not at any age be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never for whatever reason turn his back on life.

[MysteRy]

Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Remember to lean back in the parade so everybody can see the president. Be sure not to get too fat because you'll have to sit three in the back.

[MysteRy]

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

[MysteRy]

Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

[MysteRy]

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: 'A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.'