Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”

“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”