I made a list with some of my favorite Eleanor Roosevelt quotes about life and changing the way you think! Each quote has a picture that goes along with it so you can pin it to your Pinterest board or save the ones you like the most for later
Let me know which ones are the best!
Here are the quotes I found:
1. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
2. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
3. “A woman is like a tea bag you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
4. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
5. “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
6. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
8. “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
9. “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
10. “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
11. “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
12. “Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
13. “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.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
14. “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
15. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart” – Eleanor Roosevelt
16. “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
17. “All of life is a constant education.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
18. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
19. “You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
20. “If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
21. “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.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
22. “Happiness is not a goal‚ it’s a by-product of a life well lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
23. “Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
24. “Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
25. “You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
26. “What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?” – Eleanor Roosevelt
27. “Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
28. “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
29. “Work is always an antidote to depression.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
30. “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.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
31. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
32. “Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
33. “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
34. “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
35. “Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
36. “A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
37. “When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
38. “Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
39. “Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
40. “Never be bored, and you will never be boring.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
41. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
42. “He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Hopefully those quotes gave you some inspiration! Don’t forget to check out my other post’s and let me know what you think of these
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