53 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes to Spread Positivity

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• "The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!"

• "In the long run, there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely, and then act boldly. Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way."

• "I wasn't frightened. I was just afraid." Her aunt smiled. "Is there a difference?" "Oh yes," Eleanor said. "When you're frightened you run away. When you're afraid you keep on doing what you're supposed to do."

• "I do not mind riding in day coaches...Please do not put yourself or the railroad to extra expense.--First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt."

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

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

• "Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."

• "We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule."

• "We gain strength, 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."

• "It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

• "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."

• "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience."

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• "No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."

• "Do one thing every day that scares you."

• "Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier."

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

• "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

• "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."

• "If you lose the money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all."

• "When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

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

• "The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us."

• "When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being."

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• "The giving of love is an education in itself."

• "Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

• "If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat."

• "Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by anything. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed."

• "You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."

• "I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."

• "You never know anyone until you marry them."

• "The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now."

• "When you 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.'"

• "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."

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• You can scroll to the following Eleanor Roosevelt quotes below, and don't forget to share them with your friend. 

• "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."

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

• "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 have not yet begun."

• "The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long-standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

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

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