Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life has got to be lived–that’s all there is to it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. — Eleanor Roosevelt

All of life is a constant education. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life has got to be lived–that’s all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that ‘this, too, shall pass!’ — Eleanor Roosevelt

The only joy in this hard life is serving others. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life afterall is to live it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. — 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

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by–product of a life well–lived. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide. — Eleanor Roosevelt

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by–product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I never waste time looking back. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time. — Eleanor Roosevelt

No one from the beginning of time has had security. — Eleanor Roosevelt

One thing is for sure–none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made. — Eleanor Roosevelt

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of the work that’s done in the world gets done by people who weren’t feeling all that well at the time that they did it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience. — Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which You really stop to look fear in the face…. You must do the thing which You think You cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one’s position, state it bravely and then act boldly. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience. — Eleanor Roosevelt

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child’s education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I belIeve that anyone can conquer fear by doIng the thIngs he fears to do, provIded he keeps doIng them untIl he gets a record of successful experIence behInd hIm. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break. — Eleanor Roosevelt

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We will never have peace without friendship around the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain. — Eleanor Roosevelt

To leave the world richer–that is the ultimate success. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately. — Eleanor Roosevelt

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We cannot exist as a little island of well–being in a world where two–thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Actors are one family over the entire world. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being–we can do it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations. — Eleanor Roosevelt

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness. — Eleanor Roosevelt

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain. — Eleanor Roosevelt

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep. — Eleanor Roosevelt

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being. — Eleanor Roosevelt

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion — Eleanor Roosevelt

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? — Eleanor Roosevelt

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what The oTher fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on. — Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in–a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country. — Eleanor Roosevelt

To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that all that we go through here must have some value. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. — Eleanor Roosevelt