Quote #9

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

More from Eleanor Roosevelt

  1. When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
  2. Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
  3. 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.
  4. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
  5. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
  6. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
  7. To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me …
  8. When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

All Eleanor Roosevelt quotes