1. Eleanor Roosevelt - “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

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2. Eleanor Roosevelt - “Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”

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3. Eleanor Roosevelt - “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

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4. Eleanor Roosevelt - “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

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5. 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.' ... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

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6. Eleanor Roosevelt - “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”

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7. Eleanor Roosevelt - “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

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8. Eleanor Roosevelt - “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.”

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9. Eleanor Roosevelt - “It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”

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10. Eleanor Roosevelt - “Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”

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11. Eleanor Roosevelt - “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

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12. Eleanor Roosevelt - “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

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13. Eleanor Roosevelt - “A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally,who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”

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14. Eleanor Roosevelt - “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.”

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15. Eleanor Roosevelt - “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.”

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16. Eleanor Roosevelt - “It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”

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17. Eleanor Roosevelt - “You always admire what you really don't understand.”

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18. Eleanor Roosevelt - “I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”

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19. Eleanor Roosevelt - “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 would be curiosity.”

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20. Eleanor Roosevelt - “Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

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21. Eleanor Roosevelt - “Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

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22. Eleanor Roosevelt - “Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.”

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23. 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.”

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24. Eleanor Roosevelt - “A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.”

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25. Eleanor Roosevelt - “Real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.”

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