Eleanor Roosevelt

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#inspirational

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#energy #much #plan #takes #wish

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#death

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#racism #unity #zealotry #religion

Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#sexism #vocabulary #humor

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#inspirational

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#live #inspirational

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#faith

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#life

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#to-put-it-another-way #life