Eleanor Roosevelt

When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. 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.

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.

Some friends leave footprints in your heart

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

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

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

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

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.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

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.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

What one has to do usually can be done.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

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