Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my troubles. I must look for a solution.

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 would be curiosity.

The battle for the civil rights of black people has to be fought by black people themselves.

I have sometimes thought that it was a good thing that I was not a man, for I should have been a very restless man.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I think that the greatest contribution that I could make would be to help people to think for themselves.

Understanding is a two-way street.

The mind of man is capable of anything, because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

You can't just talk about it. You have to be about it.

I have never felt that I was a particularly brilliant person, but I have always felt that I was a person who was willing to work hard.

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

We grow in kindness when we act kindly.