Famous Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

"To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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

"You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If someone betrays you once, then it is their fault.  If they betray you twice, then it is your fault."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction  the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realize how seldom they do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and rich experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt