Eleanor Roosevelt

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A real picture of any human being is interesting in itself, and it is especially interesting when we can follow the play of other personalities upon that human being and perhaps get a picture of a group of people and of the influence on them of the period in which they lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt