Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

Related Quotes:

" Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

" 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 should be curiosity. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

" Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

" Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" 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. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

" In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

" Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

" It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. "

Eleanor Roosevelt