Eleanor Roosevelt

The knowledge that you have made someone else's life a little brighter can be the source of deep joy.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

We should not be afraid to be different, to think different, to act different. We should be afraid to be the same.

It is not often that I have been afraid, but when I have been, I have been thoroughly afraid.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

If life were always easy it would be boring.

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.

It is not enough to speak about peace. One must believe in it. And it is not enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Never allow a problem to be solved by those who created it.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—and of course, spiders.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

I'm not a feminist, but I believe in equal rights for men and women.

It seems to me that the thing that makes us all grow is the struggle itself.

When you educate a woman, you educate a nation.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

We have to face the fact that we are living in a revolutionary period.

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

The world of the future is in your keeping.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.