Eleanor Roosevelt

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

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

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

All of life is a constant education.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.