Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
- 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

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

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Actors are one family over the entire world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

For 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

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

What is to give light must endure the burning.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt