Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotes...

“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“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.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.”
“Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching your or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you.”
“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.”
“Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

Poems...
Footprints in Your Heart
Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas,
Average minds discuss events,
Small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Friends, you and me.
You brought another friend,
And then there were three.
We started our group,
Our circle of friends,
And like that circle –
There is no beginning or end.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.
That’s why it’s called the present.

“Actually, an important part of self-knowledge is that it gives one a better realization of the inner strength that can be called upon, of which one may be quite unaware.”

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt