Eleanor Roosevelt

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I am not a gifted person. I had only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and discipline.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you will forget about yourself, whether or not you are making a good impression on people, what they think of you, and you will think about them instead, you won’t be shy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

Eleanor Roosevelt