Eleanor Roosevelt Life Quotes

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life

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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

Nobody dies a virgin. Life fucks us all.

- Kurt Cobain

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- C. H. Parkhurst

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

- Langston Hughes

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

- John Lennon

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

- Werner Erhard

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

- Oprah Winfrey

Take anything and everything seriously, except yourselves.

- Rudyard Kipling

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein