Eleanor Roosevelt

We face the future fortified only with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must do what we think we can’t do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you come to understand self-discipline you begin to understand the limits of freedom. You grasp the fact that freedom is never absolute, that it must always be contained within the framework of other people’s freedom.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Work is always an antidote for depression.

Eleanor Roosevelt