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
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
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.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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.'
