Life Quotes Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”

“Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”

“I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”

“She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.”

“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”

“Be a true Heart, not a follower.”

“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”