Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), was the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States from 1933 to 1945, and therefore served as the first lady throughout that period. She was also a strong-willed woman, involved in numerous humanitarian causes throughout her life.
Here you will find our collection of Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes that will inspire you to live your life fearlessly.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
1. “A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
2. “Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
3. “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
4. “If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
5. “You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
6. “Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
8. “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
9. “The giving of love is an education in itself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
10. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
12. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
13. “I believe anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
14.” The purpose of life is to live it, to taste the experience to the utmost.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
15. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
16. “Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
17. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
18. “Comparison is the thief of joy.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
19. “Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren’t paying attention to you. Work is always an antidote to depression.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
20. “Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
21. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart” – Eleanor Roosevelt
22. “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
23. “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
24. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
25. “We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
26. “Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
27. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
28. “There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
29. “Work is always an antidote to depression.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
30. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
31. “It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
32. “No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
33. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavour.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
34. “We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
35. “Every time you meet a crisis and live through it, you make it simpler for the next time.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
36. “You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
37. “We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself. The learning process must go on as long as we live.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
38. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
39. “Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can’t be done.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
40. “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
41. “None of us can afford to stop learning or to check our curiosity about new things, or to lose our humility in the face of new situations.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
42. “Education provides the necessary tools, equipment by which we learn how to learn.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
43. “The knowledge of how little you can do alone teaches you humility.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
44. “The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
45. “You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
46. “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
47. “The function of democratic living is not to lower standards but to raise those that have been too low.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
48. “One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
49. “There is no experience from which you can’t learn something.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
50. “Perhaps we have to learn that life was not meant to be lived in security but with adventurous courage” – Eleanor Roosevelt
51. “We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
