Eleanor Roosevelt Age Quotes

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal, but a by-product.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to 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.'

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, Small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

In youth we learn in age we understand.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

- Alexander Hamilton

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

- Soren Kierkegaard

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

- Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

- Bertrand Russell

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Youth has no age.

- Pablo Picasso

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

- Phyllis Diller

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

- Paulo Coelho

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

- Joan Collins