Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
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.
CommitmentDutyHumble ApproachNecessityResponsiveness As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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.
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.
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.
AdmirationDepthMystery The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
AmbitionDespicabilityExploitationMeritRuthlessness Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
AccountabilityFairnessHypocrisyLeadership It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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.
CharacterCourageExperienceGrowthHonesty People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Decision MakingGender InequalityRepresentationWomen S Rights 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.
ClarityCommunicationPerceptionRelationshipUnderstanding 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.
AdversityResilienceStrength A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ConsequenceDestructionSuicideWar Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
ActionConscienceEmpathyPrevention When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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.
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.'
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.
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.
Overcoming AdversityResilienceWork My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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.
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.
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.
ConsequenceGrowthInactionResponsibilityUniversal Truth What you don't do can be a destructive force.