Eleanor Roosevelt

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life, after all, it to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There are no have-to’s, just choices.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Eleanor Roosevelt