Top 25 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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

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2. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”

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3. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

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4. “We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”

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5. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

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6. “Happiness is not a goal—it’s a byproduct of a life well lived.”

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7. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

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8. “For it isn’t enough to talk of peace. One must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

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9. “If you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.”

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10. “A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

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

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12. “You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.”

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13. “One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.”

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

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

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16. “The giving of love is an education in itself.”

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

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18. “What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

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19. It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

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20. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

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21. “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”

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22. “Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.”

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23. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

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24. “Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

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25. “If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”

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