I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

- 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 do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

- 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

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

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.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.'

- Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt