Eleanor Roosevelt Motivational Quotations

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

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

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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.

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.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

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

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

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

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

We gain strength, and 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.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.