Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
HumorSelf-ImageIronyFlattery I once 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.
WorkResilienceOvercoming Adversity My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
HappinessMiddle AgePassionAgingPerspective 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 morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
HumorHumility 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.
InactionResponsibilityConsequenceGrowthUniversal Truth What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Self-Responsibility 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.
WarPeaceFutility I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
ChoiceResponsibilityPhilosophy One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
PeaceBeliefAction It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
HypocrisyFairnessLeadershipAccountability It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
WarDestructionConsequenceSuicide Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
CommunicationUnderstandingRelationshipClarityPerception I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
AutobiographiesLearningSelf-Improvement Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
StrengthCourageConfidenceOvercoming FearResilience 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.'
Gender InequalityWomen's RightsRepresentationDecision Making 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.
PoliticsMaturityClarityIntegrity 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.
IntuitionSelf-BeliefCriticismAuthenticityCourage 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.
AmbitionRuthlessnessMeritDespicabilityExploitation Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
GrowthExperienceHonestyCourageCharacter People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
AdmirationDepthMystery The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
DutyResponsivenessCommitmentNecessityHumble Approach As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
ConsciencePreventionEmpathyAction When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Curiosity 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.
Role ReversalEmotional BondsIdentityFamily DynamicsTransformation I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.
StrengthResilienceAdversity A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
IntellectEventsSocial Interaction Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
FearVulnerabilityRelationshipCaring We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
GivingJoyHappinessGenerosity Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
LifeCuriosityEngagementResilience Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
ConvictionsBeliefFriendlinessLoyaltyWork Ethic Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
OrderReasonSelf-ImprovementEfficiencyBalance A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
HousekeepingUnderstandingPracticality There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
NeedsValidationConnectionSatisfactionRelationship In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
PreparednessResilienceChallengeGrowthHumility When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
EmpowermentDiscernmentSelf-Reliance Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Change ManagementBalancePatiencePrioritizationAdaptation You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
AcceptanceCourageBest Effort You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
FearCouragePerseveranceSuccess I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Separation of Church and StateReligious InfluenceNegative Impact on SocietyImportance of SecularismDiversity Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.