“ Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt
“ Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. Eleanor Roosevelt
“ Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. 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 thi… 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. Eleanor Roosevelt
“ 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. Eleanor Roosevelt
“ 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
“ 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
“ Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at mo… Eleanor Roosevelt
“ A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt
