Eleanor Roosevelt

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

#die #ends #lives #long #long run

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#life

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#self-acceptance #friendship

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#war #wisdom

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. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#birth

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#avenge #consciences #grow #human #misery

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

#life

It's your life-but only if you make it so. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#inspirational

All of life is a constant education. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#education

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#inspirational