Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
CommitmentDutyHumble ApproachNecessityResponsiveness As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
AmbitionDespicabilityExploitationMeritRuthlessness Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
AdversityResilienceStrength A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
AdmirationDepthMystery The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
AgingHappinessMiddle AgePassionPerspective 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.
FutilityPeaceWar I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
ChoicePhilosophyResponsibility 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.
FlatteryHumorIronySelf-Image 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.
HumilityHumor 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.
ConsequenceGrowthInactionResponsibilityUniversal 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.
Overcoming AdversityResilienceWork My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
ConfidenceCourageOvercoming FearResilienceStrength 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.'
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.
ClarityIntegrityMaturityPolitics 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.
Emotional BondsFamily DynamicsIdentityRole ReversalTransformation I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.
ActionBeliefPeace 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.
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.
CharacterCourageExperienceGrowthHonesty People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
ActionConscienceEmpathyPrevention When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
AuthenticityCourageCriticismIntuitionSelf Belief 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.
ConsequenceDestructionSuicideWar Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
AccountabilityFairnessHypocrisyLeadership It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.