Top 350 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

52. “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

53. “If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

54. “Life is meant to be lived.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

55. “Understanding is a two-way street.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

56. “Life’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It’s about doing, being and becoming. It’s about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

57. “For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

58. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

59. “Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

60. “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

61. “If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

62. “What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

63. “Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

64. “Education is the cornerstone of liberty.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

65. “The giving of love is an education in itself.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

66. “When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

67. “Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

68. “Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

69. “Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

70. “Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

71. “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.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

72. “We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

73. “Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

74. “Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

75. “Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren’t paying attention to you.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

76. “The most important word in the English language is hope.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

77. “Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

78. “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

79. “In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

80. “Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

81. “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

82. “Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

83. “Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

84. “Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a ‘success.’”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

85. “About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

86. “It’s your life-but only if you make it so.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

87. “Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

88. “Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

89. “We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

90. “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

91. “No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

92. “Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

93. “Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

94. “Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

95. “A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

96. “If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

97. “Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

98. “In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

99. “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

100. “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